Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgoverned
Literary usage of Overgoverned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1862)
"One thing perhaps they do not want, which was suggested in the House of Lords by
a Right Rev. Prelate, viz. to be overgoverned. ..."
2. Human Nature and the Social Order by Charles Horton Cooley (1922)
"On the other hand, the definition of it as letting people alone, well enough
suited, perhaps, to an overgoverned state of society, does not seem especially ..."
3. The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise by Alfred Russel Wallace (1902)
"... and suggests the idea that we may be overgoverned. Think of the hundred Acts
of Parliament annually enacted to prevent us, the people of England, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"Canada, alternately neglected and overgoverned, and through all misgoverned,
handed over on the one hand to corrupt speculators, and on the other to ..."
5. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1902)
"He is ungoverned, or he is overgoverned; he is coddled and compelled; he is coaxed
and coerced; he is spanked and spoiled and pitied. ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"Even before Federation, if we judge by British canons, Australia was vastly
overgoverned. New South Wales, for example, besides its Legislative Council, ..."
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