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Definition of Overmasters
1. overmaster [v] - See also: overmaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overmasters
Literary usage of Overmasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Thomas Marc Parrott (1904)
"The young men are not heartless, but their fear overmasters their sorrow, and
their one thought is flight. ..."
2. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy; the same disease magnified and
intensified by liberty overmasters democracy—the truth being that the ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1908)
"The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy; the same disease magnified and
intensified by liberty overmasters democracy—the truth being that the ..."
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