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Definition of Overpoweringly
1. Adverb. Incapable of being resisted. "The candy looked overwhelmingly desirable to the dieting man"
Definition of Overpoweringly
1. Adverb. In an overpowering manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overpoweringly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overpoweringly
Literary usage of Overpoweringly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898)
"... would go far toward making possible the world which we want to see. And.
this change is coming upon us overpoweringly in spite of our foolish fears. ..."
2. A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya by Nicholas Belfield Dennys (1894)
"Many people can never bring themselves to taste it, but, when once this repugnance,
which is caused by the overpoweringly offensive odour, is overcome, ..."
3. Round the World by Andrew Carnegie (1884)
"One does feel in such moments, when beauty and sublimity are so overpoweringly
displayed, that there are worlds and life beyond our ken, or should be such, ..."
4. The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings by Francis Rawdon-Hastings Hastings (1907)
"overpoweringly hot. On his head he wore a high conical cap ornamented with fur
and jewels. His hair was long, and frizzed at the sides just enough to ..."
5. A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New by George Robert Gleig (1821)
"It was sheltered, on each side, from the rays of the sun, by groves of cork trees
mingled with fir; by which means, though the day was overpoweringly hot, ..."
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