overmasteryn.
/ˌəʊvəˈmɑːst(ə)ri/, /ˌəʊvəˈmast(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈmæstəri/ Supreme authority, sovereignty, dominance.In quot. a1400: superiority or ascendancy in a contest.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun]
overhandc1175
masteryc1225
gree1320
betc1330
pricea1350
advantagea1393
overmasterya1400
voicea1400
betterc1405
higherc1450
prevaila1460
superiority1548
mastership1573
prevalence1604
eminence1609
privilegea1616
prevalency1623
upper fortunea1625
whipping-hand1682
whip hand1806
society > authority > [noun] > supreme authority
sovereigntyc1374
thronea1382
chiefnessc1420
superiority1449
suzeraintyc1470
sovereignness1532
supremity1536
supremacy1547
monarchy1585
autocracy1659
paramountcy1667
sovranty1667
paramountship1735
sovereignship1817
eminent domain1850
overmastery1901
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 6420 (MED) Þe quilest moises helde vp his hende..had goddis folk þe ouer maistri [a1400 Vesp. hale maistri; a1400 Gött. victori].
1859 L. H. Sigourney Excursion Putnam Phalanx 101 Bunker Hill records Thy stern o'ermastery of the battle-storm.
1875 Harper's Mag. July 296/1 He broke from that early overmastery.
1901 T. Shaw Patriotism & Empire (Young Scots Soc. Publ. No. 1) 4 We are free..to think with a lifting of the heart of the struggle for Scottish independence against the overmastery of England.
1932 Social Forces 10 484/1 One of the compensations for the weak and ineffective is to assert over-mastery by some fancied autocrat.
1994 Amer. Health (Nexis) Dec. 58 A current of punitive, slightly spiteful overmastery: the staff disturbing the patients' misery for no reason more complicated than casual malice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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