请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 overbearing
释义

overbearingn.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈbɛːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈbɛrɪŋ/
Forms: see over- prefix and bearing n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: overbear v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < overbear v. + -ing suffix1. With sense 2 compare overbearance n.
1.
a. The act of transporting or transferring. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 66 v Translacio, ouerberynge.
b. The action or fact of overpowering or overwhelming by force; forcible subversion. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > prevailing or mastering > overcoming or overwhelming
conquestc1315
overcoming1340
vanquishment1593
overbearing1596
overwielding1597
down-bearing1629
overwhelming1645
overwhelmment1866
1596 Acts Privy Council (1902) XXVI. 106 If we should accept your wordes of overbearinge to have bene done or suffered by us.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xxiii. 227 The Judgement..if it be led by the over-bearings of passion..the practice will be as irregular, as the conceptions erroneous.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxii The over-bearing of their Course..by a Northwest Wind.
1921 B. Jarrett Eng. Dominicans vi. 123 Protesting furiously against this overbearing of canon and common law, Bishop de Lisle appealed [etc.].
2. Imperious or dictatorial behaviour; arrogant exercise of power or assertion of superiority; an instance of this. Also with plural agreement (with the): overbearing people as a class.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [noun] > domineering or overbearing
lording?a1425
masterdomc1475
imperiousness1582
domineering1617
dictatoring1644
overbearing1649
magisteriousness1650
magisterialness1651
high-handednessa1658
peremptoriness1699
dictation1769
overbearingnessa1797
dictatorialism1826
bashawism1839
dictatorialness1845
domineeringness1889
overmasterfulness1899
bossiness1928
overdoggery1962
1649 J. Jubbes Apol. unto Officers Lord Generals Army 6 The least overbearings in your Councels, as things standeth, may right-wel tend to great national evils.
1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. xii. 245 Wrath and Fury and Overbearing upon these Occasions proceed..from Men's feeling only on their own Side.
1823 J. Neal Randolph II. 275 It is that which will deter the overbearing, forever, from ministering to their own passions, by violence.
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) iii. 82 There is always some levelling circumstance that puts down the overbearing, the strong, the rich [etc.].
1890 Spectator 9 Aug. 181/2 The man of whose overbearing and coarseness history and tradition tell us that they must have known enough.
2005 Independent (Electronic ed.) 6 July 32 If he drove some people mad with his absolutes and overbearing, he confirmed as many with his enthusiasms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

overbearingadj.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈbɛːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈbɛrɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: overbear v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < overbear v. + -ing suffix2.
1.
a. Bearing or weighing down; overpowering, overwhelming.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > overcoming or overwhelming
tyrannous1549
overwhelming1567
overpowering1616
overbearing1639
surprising1645
defeating1661
knock-down1690
overcoming1704
knocking1711
knock-me-down1944
1639 G. Chapman & J. Shirley Trag. Chabot iii. sig. E3v But who grones for this? the subject, who murmure, and are ready to beginne a rebellion, but the tumultuous saylers, and water-rats, who runne up and downe the citie, like an overbearing tempest.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 38 By conviction of some Truths, and this may be..by a strong and over-bearing presenting of them to the Understanding.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vi. 226 Evidence acknowledged real, if it be not overbearing.
1783 H. Cowley Bold Stroke for Husband i. ii. 9 Had the torrent, now so over-bearing, been taken at the springing, it might have been stem'd.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 132 That they could force the system to yield to its powers by the overbearing arms of weight and measure.
1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now II. xcii. 266 The bereaved one chooses to affect such overbearing sorrow.
1922 A. Pound Iron Man in Industry iv. 83 Injustices..sometimes flow from mistaken policies applied with overbearing weight.
1985 J. Barnes Flaubert's Parrot 116 How seriously do we take Gustave's petulance against the overbearing fame of the book [sc. Madame Bovary]?
2000 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 1 Apr. 10 Land Rover will..have the chance to prove themselves..free from the overbearing burden of 20 years of underdevelopment.
b. Overriding, preponderating. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree > excessive in degree
unmeasurablea1398
dismeasurec1400
dismeasurable1477
dismeasured1483
over1494
endlya1513
intolerable1544
wide1574
overloading1576
unconscionable1576
meanless1587
powerable1588
hyperbolical1589
extravagant1598
grievous1632
flagrant1634
exorbitant1648
overbearinga1708
unbalanced1712
well-favoured1746
steep1856
thick1884
ripe1918
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Relig. (1709) 16 'Tis natural for all Men to have an overbearing Opinion and Esteem for that particular Religion they are born and bred up in.
2. Of a person, a person's attributes, etc.: tending to overrule others, or to ignore or discount their wishes and feelings; imperious, domineering, bullying.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > domineering or overbearing
masterfulc1390
pontificalc1440
overmasterfula1450
headya1513
imperious1529
supercilious1536
masterlya1544
termagant1546
law-like1556
masterlike1580
dictator-like1582
peremptory1590
domineering1598
burly1605
high-handed1606
pontificial1613
lording1629
overlordingc1629
pontifician1629
peremptor1630
dictatory1639
predominant1642
dictatorial1692
pontific1716
overbearing1718
dictativea1774
knock-me-down1848
imponenta1882
bossy1882
heavy-handed1883
seigneurial1970
1718 C. Cibber Non-juror v. 70 I cannot look on thee! thy overbearing Insolence confounds me.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. xxxii. 119 I see a Bigot, wherever I see a Man over-bearing and positive without knowing why.
a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) 441 The prigs are truly not to be endured, for they are..narrow-minded, pedantic, and overbearing.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. ix. i. 255 His temper was harsh and severe, his manners haughty and overbearing.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. lxiii. 414 He was an effective and somewhat overbearing speaker.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxvi. 401 She looked at the young man with a determined, protective look, at once overbearing and very gentle.
1976 Country Life 12 Feb. 346/1 In Albert Herring, Britten took stock characters—pompous mayor, stolid policeman..over-bearing lady of the manor [etc.].
1997 N. DeMille Plum Island xv. 194 I'm an overbearing, egocentric, and opinionated male chauvinist pig.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.a1425adj.1639
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/23 2:46:16