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▪ I. overˈbearing, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. overbear: a bearing or thrusting over by force; overpowering, forcible subversion.
1596Acts Privy Counc. XXVI. 106 If we should accept your wordes of overbearinge to have bene done or suffered by us. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. xxiii. 227 The Judgement..if it be led by the over-bearings of passion..the practice will be as irregular, as the conceptions erroneous. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. lxii, The over-bearing of their Course..by a Northwest Wind.
2. Imperious or dictatorial action; an arrogant exercise of superior power.
1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 165 Wrath and fury and overbearing upon these occasions proceed..from men's feeling only on their own side. 1849–53Rock Ch. of Fathers III. x. 423 The English people's spokesman against the feudal overbearings..of the Anglo-Norman dynasty. 1890Spectator 9 Aug., The man of whose overbearing and coarseness history and tradition tell us that they must have known enough.
▪ II. overbearing, ppl. a.|əʊvəˈbɛərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
†1. Bearing or weighing down; overpowering, overwhelming, oppressing. Obs.
a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 38 By conviction of some Truths, and this may be..by a strong and over-bearing presenting of them to the Understanding. 1736Butler Anal. ii. vi. 313 Evidence acknowledged real, if it be not overbearing. 1806Beresford Proclam. Buenos Ayres in Lond. Gaz. No. 15956 He will then make such Reductions in the overbearing Duties as may seem most conducive to the Interest of the Country. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 630 That they could force the system to yield to its powers by the overbearing arms of weight and measure.
†b. Overruling, preponderating. Obs.
a1708Beveridge Priv. Th. i. (1730) 9 Tis natural for all Men to have an overbearing Opinion and Esteem for that particular Religion they are born and bred up in.
2. Disposed to repress or overrule others; imperious, domineering, bullying, masterful.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. vi. §32, I see a bigot wherever I see a man overbearing and positive without knowing why. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 255 His temper was harsh and severe, his manners haughty and overbearing. 1880McCarthy Own Times IV. lxiii. 414 He was an effective and somewhat overbearing speaker. |