overbearing
Example Sentences
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Such forwardness is not resolution, but rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an overdaring presumption.—King.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
We'll either rent the bowels of the earth, Searching the entrails of the brutish earth, Or, with his Ixion's overdaring son, Be bound in chains of everduring steel.
From Locrine/Mucedorus by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
My mood was equal to overdaring, and all because of Patsy Dale.
From A Virginia Scout by Hutchison, D. C.
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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