overvaulting

In this way important questions were raised about the free will of the character - could, for example, Macbeth have chosen to be content with his position, rather than submit to his 'overvaulting' ambition?

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

What happens next is strange, anomalous, a sudden and effortless overvaulting of inertia, a spasm of speed.

Mercedes: a Demon of Hurtling Mass Dan Neil 2011

Its noblest actions are found to be often caused by petty spites or vanity or overvaulting ambition; and even when begun in good faith as a source of devotion, the practices of piety at times are degraded into causes of vice.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

If the air is clear and bright, the snows and overvaulting clouds which crown its mountains shine all day, and glitter like an apparition in the bright blue sky.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

If the air is clear and bright, the snows and overvaulting clouds which crown its mountains shine all day, and glitter like an apparition in the bright blue sky.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

"Speak thus, dear lord, to Isabel, for I fear her overvaulting spirit --"

The Last of the Barons — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"Speak thus, dear lord, to Isabel, for I fear her overvaulting spirit --"

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The Ecole Militaire has galleries and overvaulting canopies, where

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838