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Definition of Overpowering
1. Adjective. So strong as to be irresistible. "An overwhelming majority"
Definition of Overpowering
1. a. Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible.
Definition of Overpowering
1. Verb. (present participle of overpower) ¹
2. Adjective. That overpowers; so strong as to be overwhelming. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overpowering
1. overpower [v] - See also: overpower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpowering
Literary usage of Overpowering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"... but in both cases there was an overpowering repugnance to the possible truth,
which threw a turning weight into the scale of argument. ..."
2. The Court Circles of the Republic, Or, The Beauties and Celebrities of the by Elizabeth Fries Ellet, R. E. Mack (1869)
"Jackson's Election by an overpowering Majority—Death of his Wife— His ...
GENERAL JACKSON was brought into office by an overpowering majority, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"That overpowering sense of weight and grandeur which calls forth the inward cry
to the mountains to cover us, as we pass beneath some vast precipice, ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"If insanity were to be analogized to sudden or overpowering illness, which renders
It impossible for a person to perform an act or discharge a duty, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Conn and dilettantisme tac- tique, while overlooking the factors of energy
and overpowering moral force which, through all material changes in armament, ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"... weeping silently and long; but from what she afterward told me l know it was
not from terror or sorrow, but from the overpowering gladness of the ..."
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