Meaning of crow over | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To triumph over (someone).
   transitive
2. To gloat over (a triumph, an opponent's defeat, someone else's misfortune).

Examples

“[They are] inferiors to the ministers of the word, as our aduersaries doe confesse, and is plaine also by the cannon lawe they crow ouer them as if they wer their slaues.”

“The world is of an encroaching nature, hard it is to converſe with it, and not come⟳ into bondage to it; as Hagar (when Abraham ſhew'd her ſome reſpect more than ordinary) began to conteſt with, yea, crow over her Miſtreſſe; ſo will our worldly employments juſtle with our heavenly, if we keep⟳ not a ſtrict hand over them.”

“The lady herself, though a paragon of virtue, is not too amiable or humble. Before her misfortunes, she is pert and flippant to her family, particularly to her sister, whom she crows over with vulgar vanity.”

“"Don't talk⟳ to me about tender strings," said Jonas, wiping his forehead with the cuff of his coat. "I'm not going to be crowed over by you, because I don't like⟳ dead company." / Mr. Pecksniff had got out the words "Crowed over, Mr. Jonas!" when that young man, with a dark expression in his countenance, cut⟳ him short once more: […]”

“The heads of the other movement […] practically, to use⟳ a vulgar expression, "crowed over them."”

“The cock frightened me, like⟳ some overpowering angel in the Apocalypse. He seemed crowing over the fall⟳ of wicked Babylon, or crowing over the triumph of righteous Joshua in the vale of Askelon.”

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