Overcoming

Definitions

The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.

Equivalents

Examples

“Ther with all cam kyng Arthur but with a fewe peple and slewe on the lyfte hand and on the ryght hand that wel nyhe ther escaped no man / but alle were slayne to the nombre of xxx M / And whan the bataille was all ended the kynge kneled doune and thanked god mekely / and thenne he sente for the quene and soone she was come⟳ / and she maade grete Ioye of the ouercomynge of that bataille”

“In the eyes of their witnesses, exemplary figures redeem their own⟳ suffering, which in turn⟳ emboldens these witnesses to attempt⟳ painful self-overcomings of their own⟳.”

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