Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Overbearing behavior; arrogance; imperiousness.
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- noun
Overbearing behaviour ;arrogance ;imperiousness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He provided rules of the road but avoided, at all costs, overbearance.
Barack Obama, Campaign Manager: How The 2008 Playbook Passed Health Care 2010
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Sarah could not restrain herself in the face of such overbearance.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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Sarah could not restrain herself in the face of such overbearance.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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Sarah could not restrain herself in the face of such overbearance.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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Sarah could not restrain herself in the face of such overbearance.
The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981
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She had tried by every means in her power to win at least a look from the girl, but all her attempts were repelled and she was treated with an overbearance that cut her to the quick.
The Governess Julie Mathilde Lippmann
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In the world of nature there is tyranny, egoism, aggression, overbearance, usurpation of the rights of others and other blameworthy attributes which are defects of the animal world.
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The Federal judiciary was looked to, with its virtually permanent membership, to hold the entire structure of national politics in nice balance against all disturbing influences, whether of popular impulse or of official overbearance.
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I did not tell Alice of what I had done, for although Alice is (as I have already assured you) the most amiable of her sex, she cannot brook what she regards as an imposition, and this inclination to resent seeming overbearance in others has not unfrequently put us to expense and involved us in embarrassment.
The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Eugene Field 1872
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Borodaile who despise arrogance and resent overbearance even to others.
The Disowned — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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