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overˈcomer
[f. prec. + -er1.]
1. One who overcomes; a conqueror, vanquisher.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 30 Þan sall þou be..ouerganger and ouercommere of all synnes. c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. iii. 43 He þat can wel suffre, shal finde most pes; he is an ouercomer of himself. a1548Hall Chron. Rich. III 55 Other stode stil and loked on, entendynge to take parte wt the victors and overcommers. 1687J. Renwick Serm. xxviii. (1776) 339 The Saints are overcomers and they have palms in their hands. 1861Trench 7 Ch. Asia 48 Christ sets himself forth here as the overcomer of death natural.
2. An appellation assumed by a religious sect which was started in U.S. in 1881 and founded a colony at Jerusalem in Palestine.
The name is derived from their interpretation of the promises made to ‘him that overcometh’ in Rev. ii, iii.
1882–3in Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1889 Developments of the same kind [as Millerites and other pre⁓millennialists] may be instanced in the so-called ‘Overcomers’ of America. |