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  • verb Present participle of overcloud.

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Examples

  • In magnificent solitude he marched toward the house, while Hugh bewailed his sin and the overclouding of august favor.

    Main Street 2004

  • Then, suddenly overclouding all his features, he growled in a hoarsened rasping voice as he hewed again vigorously at the loaf: —

    Ulysses 2003

  • Meanwhile La Salle and Peter had viewed with no little anxiety the sudden overclouding of the sky, or rather the heavy curtain of vapor which seemed to descend mysteriously from the zenith, rather than to gather from beyond the horizon.

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • Law it was not laid down precisely of what sacraments men were to make use: whereas this was prescribed by the Law; and this was necessary both on account of the overclouding of the natural law, and for the clearer signification of faith.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • As long as her little mistress smiled, Tilly's face too was wreathed in smiles; but when a hidden shadow darkened the Perrybingle sky, overclouding the happiness of the little home, and Dot cried all night,

    Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

  • In magnificent solitude he marched toward the house, while Hugh bewailed his sin and the overclouding of august favor.

    Main Street 1920

  • In magnificent solitude he marched toward the house, while Hugh bewailed his sin and the overclouding of august favor.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • I wonder if a presentiment was even then overclouding what seemed a brilliant beginning!

    My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914

  • In his own language, he had seen a ghost -- the shadow of Rome overclouding his Anglican compromise.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Then, suddenly overclouding all his features, he growled in a hoarsened rasping voice as he hewed again vigorously at the loaf:

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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