单词 | overshadowingly |
释义 | overshadowinglyadv. Now rare. So as to overshadow; to an overshadowing degree. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adverb] excellentlyc1400 transcendingly1528 transcendently1623 overshadowingly1842 unsurpassably1859 1842 E. S. Wortley Maiden of Moscow ii. xiii. 49 Methinks arise dim mists from far, Stretched overshadowingly, That round your crests of terror cling, And pale them. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 81/2 Which rarely happens to literary men overshadowingly great. 1888 Littell's Living Age 31 Mar. 806/2 They are memories of no overshadowingly mighty men and things, and yet personalities need not be gigantic in order to be pleasant. 1908 G. Meredith Last Poems in Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 1/5 Overshadowingly (Aggrandised, monstrous in his grinning mask Of hypocritical Peace), inveterate Moloch Remains the great example. 1920 K. Hara Introd. Hist. Japan vi. 137 It was a great misfortune to us [sc. Japan] that we had such an over-shadowingly influential neighbour [sc. China]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1842 |
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