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The trait of being imperious and overbearing
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overbearingness
Word definitions for overbearingness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical; dictatorial; insolent. [1913 Webster] -- O`ver*bear"ing*ly , adv. -- O`ver*bear"ing*ness , n.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Quality of being overbearing.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the trait of being imperious and overbearing [syn: imperiousness , domineeringness ]
Usage examples of overbearingness.
If the family in its best forms is, as it is often said to be, a school of sympathy, tenderness, and loving forgetfulness of self, it is still oftener, as respects its chief, a school of wilfulness, overbearingness, unbounded selfish indulgence, and a double-dyed and idealised selfishness, of which sacrifice itself is only a particular form: the care for the wife and children being only care for them as parts of the man’s own interests and belongings, and their individual happiness being immolated in every shape to his smallest preferences.
Then he said he knew I'd already been sounding men out about getting together against the king, to withstand his overbearingness and, if need be, fight.
Dennitzans didn't react to overbearingness as meekly as citizens of the inner Empire were wont to.