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Definition of Overweighs
1. overweigh [v] - See also: overweigh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overweighs
Literary usage of Overweighs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Drama, 1558-1642: A History of the Drama in England from the by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1908)
"|In The Comedy of Errors incident overweighs character all but completely; ...
In Cynthia's Revels, character so overweighs incident that, although for the ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, Richard Holland Johnston (1905)
"Take out the eleventh article, and the evil of all the others so much overweighs
the good, that we should be glad to expunge the whole. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The same ballad touch overweighs even the lyric quality of the verses about
Yarrow: — " WILLY'S rare, and Willy's fair, And Willy's wondrous bonny, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"But his talent for building an authentic atmosphere overweighs all his imperfections.
Most of the other detective novels take place in unreal, ..."
5. Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: A Popular Illustration of the Principles by Richard Green Moulton (1901)
"196 in council overweighs in point after point the shrewder ~ly>' advice of Cassius.
Through the scenes of the fifth Act we see the republican leaders ..."
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