单词 | overbearance |
释义 | overbearancen.ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > predominance or preponderance > [noun] predominy?a1475 weight1569 predomination1592 predominance1595 predominancy1598 ascendant1607 predominion1607 prepotency1623 overweight1626 overbearance1639 preponderation1650 prepollency1663 preponderancy1689 the transcendent1691 overpoise1697 preponderance1704 prepollence1730 1639 G. Digby in G. Digby & K. Digby Lett. conc. Relig. (1651) 121 A confession of the ballances being so equally poysed in this affaire..that the overbearance of either scale is hardly perceptible. 2. Overbearing behaviour; imperiousness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > arrogance > [noun] prideOE overgartc1175 surquidrya1250 stuntisea1327 arrogance1340 insolencec1386 surquidyc1407 succudryc1425 lordliness1440 arrogancy1477 ogartc1480 wantonness?a1505 stateliness1509 insolencya1513 surquidancea1525 superbityc1540 imperiousness1582 surliness1587 super-arrogation1593 insolentness1594 assumption1609 self-assumption1609 huff1611 imperiosity1618 superarrogancy1620 lordship1633 self-assuming1644 alazony1656 high-handednessa1658 fast1673 arrogantness1756 overbearance1766 swaggera1821 huffishness1841 you-be-damnedness1885 high and mighty1924 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. ix. 116 Will this benevolent and lowly man retain the same front of haughtiness, the same brow of overbearance? 1814 J. Steele Hist. Eccl. Proc. Third Presbyterian Church Philadelphia 79 A spirit was manifest, that would overturn the order of the Society, crying out over-bearance, and want of condescension. 1877 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Apr. 279 The different motives..finally yield to the preponderating overbearance of the motive of the ride of the Walküren. 1884 Law Times 20 Sept. 347/1 A judge who has not either of these checks may acquire an inveterate habit of overbearance. 1911 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 21 143 Anything that savored of cruelty, overbearance, narrowness, awoke in him a hot indignation. 1952 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 24 351/2 It was not ingratitude which turned the Bulgars away from the Russians, but..Russian overbearance and misunderstanding of Bulgarian national aspirations. 1992 S. Doubiago S. Amer. Mi Hija vii. 242 Suffering his overbearance on the world and on me I was afraid of myself on the world and on you, your brother. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1639 |
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