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Meanings of overbearing disposition in English

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Usage of overbearing disposition in English
1
One hears story after story of his grasping and overbearing disposition.
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
2
The new Governor was of a restless and overbearing disposition.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation. V...
3
Though naturally of a haughty and overbearing disposition, he was governed by his wife.
A Sicilian Romance
4
The prince has lost almost all his friends, by his drunken habits and his quarrelsome and overbearing disposition.
With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War
5
He made it a practice never to waste a word in any subservience to magistrates who showed an overbearing disposition.
Lloyd George: The Man and His Story
6
He appears to have been a clever man, but of an extremely overbearing disposition and a very high opinion of himself.
The Life of Captain James Cook, the Circumnavigator
7
With all his force of character, and his overbearing disposition, Stanton did not undertake to rule the President-thoughthis has sometimes been asserted.
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln / A Narrative And Descript...
8
Besides this he was naturally of an overbearing disposition and very contemptuous of those whom he regarded as inferior to himself in any particular.
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of ...
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