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单词 overbearance
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overbearancen.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈbɛːrəns/, /ˌəʊvəˈbɛːrn̩s/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈbɛr(ə)ns/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: overbear v., -ance suffix.
Etymology: < overbear v. + -ance suffix. Compare abearance n., forbearance n., bearance n., and overbearing n.
1. The fact of outweighing or weighing more. Obsolete. rare.
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).
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