overpoweredly

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1. rareIn an overpowering manner.

   15. ἀναστενάξας, having heaved a deep groan, as though strangely and overpoweredly affected by the feel of the arrow.

   1830, T. W. C. Edwards, “Ode XLV. On the Arrows of Cupid.”, in […] The Odes of Anacreon the Teian Bard, Literally Translated into English Prose; […], London: […] W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, […], →OCLC, footnote 15, page 119, column 2

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   Senator [Ernest] Lundeen. There was not any large percentage that would be unwilling to serve their country if the country was at war, was there? Mr. Kempton. Well, sir, there was not, but I would say the majority were not overpoweredly anxious to go into action, I will say that.

   1938, “Statement of Murray Kempton, Editor, Johns Hopkins University News Letter”, in American Youth Act: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-Fifth Congress, Third Session on S. 1463 […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 113

   A thing is what the human will, under the influence of the light of the human intellect, overpoweredly judges must be and cannot not be.

   1984, Peter A. Redpath, “The Epic Begins: Protagoras Redivivus”, in Cartesian Nightmare: An Introduction to Transcendental Sophistry (Value Inquiry Book Series; 41), Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 106

   Synonyms: overpoweringly, overpowerfully