单词 | overweighing |
释义 | overweighingadj. That overweighs; that is the most important or significant. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > encumbering > burdening > excessively over-chargeful1451 over-chargeable1539 overburdensome1581 overweighing1590 overburdening1601 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. v. i The means the overweighing Heavens Have kept to qualify these hot extremes. 1874 J. J. van Oosterzee Christian Dogmatics 434 There is no overweighing objection even to this last distinction. 1896 W. Black Briseis xvii This overweighing war of the elements that distracted his attention. 1943 Man 43 31/2 The new agricultural system was of overweighing importance. 2002 Jrnl. News (Westchester County, N.Y.) (Nexis) 18 Oct. 1 a The public safety has to be the overweighing factor. Derivatives overˈweighingly adv. rare ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > inequality > [adverb] > in a way that is overbalanced overweighingly1595 1595 Polimanteia (1881) 23 If..I ouerweyingly valew you at too high a rate. 1942 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 14 486 Taken in all, overweighingly in favor of the interests of the Princes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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