oversteppingn.
/ˌəʊvəˈstɛpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈstɛpɪŋ/ 1.
a. The action of stepping over a limit, boundary, etc., esp. a limit of proper or acceptable behaviour.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > going beyond bounds
overgoinga1382
surmounting14..
supergressiona1550
exceeding1593
debordment1603
pretergression1615
transgression1623
transcension?1624
debording1635
excess1818
overstep1822
overstepping1823
overpassing1865
transcendency1902
transcendence1907
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. ix. 158 The overstepping of these bounds of ceremonial..has the effect of compromising their dignity with the world in general.
1842 Ladies' Repository Feb. 55 How often does this fastidious self-reserve..subject its owner to the charge of arrogance, hauteur, and an overstepping of others.
1869 J. S. Mill Subject. Women i. 32 An overstepping of the proper bounds of authority.
1934 Times 10 Oct. 19/1 The Yugoslavs..are always liable to show practical resentment of any overstepping of authority on the part of their ruling monarch.
1943 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 12 62/2 An overstepping of the line between interpretation and showmanship.
1997 J. Williams Money 15/2 The overstepping of the natural limits of time and space through technological advance.
b. Cricket. The action of bowling with one foot illegally positioned over the crease.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > overstepping crease
overstepping1959
1959 Oxf. Mail 2 Feb. 8/7 Rorke..lost a lot of his fearsomeness after being rightly no-balled because of his long drag, called over-stepping in Australia.
1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 98 Rowan reports remarks I am alleged to have made..after I had been no-balled for overstepping.
1997 D. Bird & K. Lodge My Autobiogr. (1998) vii. 121 I called him for overstepping in all but one of his first seven overs.
2. Geology (chiefly British). = overstep n. 2. rare.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > position or direction of strata > overstep
overstep1883
overstepping1883
1883 J. G. Goodchild in Geol. Mag. 2nd Decade 10 227 I have found it convenient..to speak of this stratigraphical relation of unconformable beds to the various rocks immediately beneath as Overstepping.
1928 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 216 152 This diagram shows an eastward overstepping of the Oxfordien (in Haug's sense) by the Ampthill Clay.
3. Biology. The development of an animal up to and beyond the final adult stage of its ancestors. historical. rare.
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1930 G. R. de Beer Embryol. & Evol. i. 5 For Müller, ontogeny could follow one of two methods... An animal might either pass through the ontogenetic stages and beyond the final adult stage of the ancestor (‘overstepping’), or it might diverge more and more form the ontogenetic stages of the ancestor.
1948 Evolution 2 342/1 Hypotheses of evolutionary advance by terminal accretion or overstepping (palingenesis, gerontomorphosis, hypermorphosis) have never been able to account satisfactorily..for the origin of most major phylogenetic lines.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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