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Definition of Overwent
1. overgo [v] - See also: overgo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwent
Literary usage of Overwent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1905)
"That he overwent ; this also may I. For a thirty winters did Theodric fast ...
That one overwent; this also may I. We have yet another sketch of the Scop ..."
2. The History of Early English Literature: Being the History of English Poetry by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1892)
"That he overwent ; this also may I. For a thirty winters did Theodric fast ...
That one overwent ; this also may I. With this song begins and ends the Old ..."
3. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Donald Moore, Thomas Rowland Powel (1846)
"... or Balun, who came in with the Conqueror, subdued overwent, and built the
castle of ... having given overwent and the castle of Grosmont to his kinsman, ..."
4. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1827)
"... and overwent, assembled to the number of eight thousand men according to their
own account. And they went on the same Wednesday, in the morning, ..."
5. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"Middleton, Family of Love, i. 1 (Glister). See NED. for other examples. overwent,
oppressed, subdued. Spenser, Shep. Kal., March, 2. ..."
6. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United by George Edward Cokayne (1887)
"HAMELIN KB BALUN, Lord of overwent, со. Mon- I. Will. I. mouth, is said to have
built the castle of ..."
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