overcoming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of overcome

plural overcomings

1. The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.

   In the eyes of their witnesses, exemplary figures redeem their own suffering, which in turn emboldens these witnesses to attempt painful self-overcomings of their own.

   2005, Daniel Conway, Nietzsche and the Political, page 87

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   Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV