| 单词 |
overcoming |
| 释义 |
▪ I. overˈcoming, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. overcome; a conquering, overpowering, overmastering.
a1300Cursor M. 25175 Thoru ouer cuming o þat faand. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxxi. (MS. Bodl.) 99 b/1 Ouercomynge of deþe and openynge of Paradise. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. iii. 115 b, The armie of Darius, at the ouercomming of Grecia, were armed after this manner. 1859J. Brown Rab & F., Eyes..full of suffering, but also full of the overcoming of it.
▪ II. overˈcoming, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That overcomes; overwhelming, overpowering.
1704Norris Ideal World ii. v. 303 We..shall wish to shade our eyes from thy too powerful and overcoming light. a1716South Serm. (1717) IV. 68 Crushed to Death under Heaps of Gold, stifled with an overcoming Plenty. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. lxix, My Cloak would be quite overcoming.
Hence overˈcomingly adv., in an overcoming manner; presumptuously; oppressively.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. iii. 73 That they should so boldly and overcomingly dictate to him such things as are not fit. 1840Tait's Mag. VII. 195 Smelling over⁓comingly of musk. |
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