overpoweredly
advEtymology From overpowered + -ly.
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Rare In 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:
- 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:
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- 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: