overcoming

overcoming

1. present participle and gerund of overcome

overcoming (plural overcomings)

1. The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “iij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:

     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

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   • 2005, Daniel Conway, Nietzsche and the Political, page 87:

     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.

• coming over