单词 | owerance |
释义 | owerancen. Scottish, English regional (northern), and Irish English (northern). Superiority, ascendancy, mastery, control. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > superior or predominant surmouncya1400 overtyc1443 overlaikc1450 owerance1552 superiorities1558 hegemony1567 superordination1619 regnancy1650 uppermost1718 autocracy1774 dominance1823 dominancy1841 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. ii. vi. f. 102v To slay syn and dede quhilk had ouerance apon vs. 1633 Ld. Wariston Diary (1911) I. 79 Thou craived only at God that he wald..give thé ourance over thyne auine heart. 1812 Scotchman No. 6. 53 How comes't that we reckon we hae a richt to the owrance o' onie ither thing that belangs to him. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 122 ‘She fairly haes t' owerance ower him’, she completely rules him. 1896 A. J. Armstrong Kirkiebrae 234 There's nae doot ye hae need o' some sensible body to keep an owerance o' your duds. a1917 E. C. Smith Braid Haaick (1927) 16 Juidin hes landed eis-sul in a guid job; hei hes the owrance o the hyill wareroom. 1997 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 29 Apr. 16 Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party has launched a version of its manifesto—in Ulster Scots. ‘Democracie—Wi'oot nae Dublin owerance’ or Democracy—Not Dublin Rule, is a page-long document outlining [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1552 |
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