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English Dictionary: overbearingness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
overbearingness
n
  1. the trait of being imperious and overbearing [syn: imperiousness, domineeringness, overbearingness]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Overbearing \O`ver*bear"ing\, a.
      1. Overpowering; subduing; repressing. --I. Watts.
  
      2. Aggressively haughty; arrogant; domineering; tyrannical;
            dictatorial; insolent. --{O`ver*bear"ing*ly}, adv. --
            {O`ver*bear"ing*ness}, n.
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