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present participle and gerund of overspread examples
plural overspreadings
That which spreads over something else. quotations examples
But supposing that heaven had a Lord, then all included in its overspreadings and supportings, throughout the myriad of states, and within the four seas, would invariably be under the government of Heaven's Lord […]
1847, Walter Henry Medhurst, A Dissertation on the Theology of the Chinese, page 252
comparative more overspreading, superlative most overspreading
Rampant; encroaching. quotations examples
The third part of practice hath divers branches, but one principal root in these our times, which is the vast and overspreading ambition and usurpation of the see of Rome; […]
a. 1627 (date written), Francis Bacon, chapter VII, in James Spedding, editor, The Works of Francis Bacon, […]: The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon […], volume IV, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, published 1858, page 270