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Definition of Overlooking
1. Adjective. Used of a height or viewpoint. "The balcony overlooking the ballroom"
Definition of Overlooking
1. Verb. (present participle of overlook) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overlooking
1. overlook [v] - See also: overlook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlooking
Literary usage of Overlooking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Adolph Sutro, Mayor of San Francisco, has given a tract of thirteen acres just
south of and overlooking Golden Gate Park as a site for the building. ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(SO) to place their freedom in gratifying the present passion, and their courage
m overlooking all future consequences, turned away with indignant ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... three miles from the sea, on a steep rock overlooking covered; the fact was
commemorated in the coat HF a rich plain watered by the Drago. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Conn and dilettantisme tac- tique, while overlooking the factors of energy
and overpowering moral force which, through all material changes in armament, ..."
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