overmaster

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It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012

A common language and a common religion overmaster political differences, and the English and American dead are laid side by side to rest until the judgment.

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.

And there was another thing: however much he might overmaster Nature sufficiently to be able to proceed without rest, the horse could not do so.

From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John

The necessity of recovering it cooled for the moment the passion which had threatened to overmaster him.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various

So much the preference of contrivance to labor overmaster the mastering desire to become rich.

From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by Withington, William