Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being overpowerful.
What defences have we against this overpowerfulness of the bureaucrat?
1943 December, Christopher Hollis, “Mr. [Hilaire] Belloc’s Servile State and the Beveridge Plan”, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, volume XXXII, number 128, Dublin: The Educational Company of Ireland […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4842 more examples
In the tenth century there is evidence that the government was taking action against kin, its chosen instrument, where its overpowerfulness made it a menace to the state.
1972, Helen M. Jewell, “Police Functions”, in English Local Administration in the Middle Ages, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles; New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Books, →ISBN, chapter 6 (The Keeping of the Peace and Defence), page 159This solution is not perfect, and many people in France are against it as strongly as they are against the overpowerfulness of Paris, but I think it could help to provide a better urban mesh and create a better equilibrium inside our territory.
1974 March, Jacqueline Beaujeau-Garnier^([sic]), “Toward a New Equilibrium in France?”, in Fred E. Dohrs, Lawrence M. Sommers, editors, World Regional Geography: A Problem Approach, Saint Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., published 1976, →ISBN, page 173Synonyms: overpoweredness, overpoweringness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being overpowerful.
Origin
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