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Definition of Overridden
1. override [v] - See also: override
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overridden
Literary usage of Overridden
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes (1868)
"STEVENS — VETOES overridden — THE QUESTION SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE — THEIR
VERDICT — SUMMARY OF VETOES — IMPEACHMENT — CHARGES BY MR. ..."
2. International Law by John Westlake (1907)
"Are the Laws of War liable to be overridden by Necessity? Another question which
concerns every possible body of laws of war as well as the Hague ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The Governor has a veto-power on législation, which may lie overridden by a
two-third vote of both houses. ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"They may be again, as they have been before, forgotten, they may be overridden;
but they have their root in the Church; they will spring up again, ..."
5. The Annals of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century by John Latimer (1900)
"Yot the minutes of a pathetic meeting of the Council on November 8th cannot bo
read without a feeling of pity and respect for men overridden by events ..."
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