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Domineer   /dˌɑmənˈɪr/   Listen
Domineer

verb
(past & past part. domineered; pres. part. domineering)
1.
Rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner.  Synonyms: tyrannise, tyrannize.






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"Domineer" Quotes from Famous Books



... thee, With the lines that begirt thee, And the red-coated saints domineer; Who with liberty fool thee, While a monster doth rule thee, And thou feel'st ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

... to make you think yourself better than others, quibble over texts, wear sour looks, domineer over others' consciences or give your own over to bondage; stifle your scruples, follow religious forms for fashion or gain, do good in the hope of escaping future punishment?—oh, then, if you proclaim yourself the follower of Buddha, Moses, Mahomet, ...
— The Simple Life • Charles Wagner

... Council, which he had made two years before. But how was his attitude changed since then! He, the accused and condemned heretic, now himself proclaims condemnation and ruin to his enemy, the antichristian power that seeks to domineer the world. Nor is it only from a future Council, and one constituted as the previous great assemblies of the Church, that he expects and demands protection for himself and the Christian truth; again and again he calls upon the ...
— Life of Luther • Julius Koestlin

... the brain as the seat of the nobler sentiments. Being a stronger sentiment than Harmony, it should be located farther back where we place the letters Love. Its antagonism must be on the basilar surface, and a little behind the vertical line, as Love is before it. This antagonistic faculty would domineer and crush. Its extremest action would result in Hatred. Its location is marked by the letters Ha. ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 - Volume 1, Number 11 • Various

... And it was the best guarantee to equality among the whites. It produced an unvarying level among them. It not only did not excite, but did not even admit of inequalities by which one white man could domineer over another. ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various


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