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Definition of Domineers
1. domineer [v] - See also: domineer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Domineers
Literary usage of Domineers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"... disease of melancholy so frequently rageth, and now domineers almost all over
Europe amongst our great ones. ..."
2. A History of English Literature by Edward Jermyn Mathew (1901)
"The Pardoner is a prominent character—one belonging to every age ; the type of
man who commands and domineers over the high and low vulgar. ..."
3. The British Pulpit: A Collection of Sermons by the Most Eminent Divines of (1844)
"Sin domineers ; that is the tyrant which holds him in subjection. And on the
other hand, the believer is sweetly, and blessedly ruled by the will of God, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... he insults and domineers in melancholy distempered fantasies and persons
especially ; melancholy is balneum diaboli, as Serapio holds, the devil's bath, ..."
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