overruler
nounEtymology From overrule + -er? over- + ruler?
1
Someone or something thay controls, governs, or determines.
- But necessity, the only overruler of affections, did force her then gently to unfold herself from those sweet embracementsa. 1587 (date written), Phillip Sidney [i.e., Philip Sidney], An Apologie for Poetrie. […], London: […] [James Roberts] for Henry Olney, […], published 1595, →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, An Apologie for Poetrie (English Reprints), London: [Alexander Murray & Son], 1 April 1868, →OCLC:
2
Someone who overrules.