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Webster 1913 Edition


Overbearing

Oˊver-bear′ing

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Adj.
1.
Overpowering; subduing; repressing.
I. Watts.
2.
Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent.
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Oˊver-bear′ing-ly
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adv.
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Oˊver-bear′ing-ness
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Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Overbearing

OVERBEARING

, ppr.
1.
Bearing down; repressing.
2.
a. Haughty and dogmatical; disposed or tending to repress or subdue by insolence or effrontery.