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Definition of Overwearing
1. overwear [v] - See also: overwear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwearing
Literary usage of Overwearing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Miscellany by C. Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett (1843)
"This is dead,—but our friend sleepeth,—sleepeth from the struggles of this world,
from anxious no less than delightful, and overwearing labors, ..."
2. Army Reorganization: Hearings Before the Committee on Military Affairs by United States Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs (1920)
"... and because of fear that the white man would take advantage of them again,
because of an overwearing sense of oppression that might come upon them. ..."
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