overpoweredly

overpoweredly

English

Etymology

From overpowered +‎ -ly.

Adverb

overpoweredly (comparative more overpoweredly, superlative most overpoweredly)

  1. (rare) In an overpowering manner.
    Synonyms: overpoweringly, overpowerfully
    • 1830, T. W. C. Edwards, “Ode XLV. On the Arrows of Cupid.”, in [] The Odes of Anacreon the Teian Bard, Literally Translated into English Prose; [], London: [] W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, [], →OCLC, footnote 15, page 119, column 2:
      15. ἀναστενάξας, having heaved a deep groan, as though strangely and overpoweredly affected by the feel of the arrow.
    • 1938, “Statement of Murray Kempton, Editor, Johns Hopkins University News Letter”, in American Youth Act: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-Fifth Congress, Third Session on S. 1463 [], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 113:
      Senator [Ernest] Lundeen. There was not any large percentage that would be unwilling to serve their country if the country was at war, was there? Mr. Kempton. Well, sir, there was not, but I would say the majority were not overpoweredly anxious to go into action, I will say that.
    • 1984, Peter A. Redpath, “The Epic Begins: Protagoras Redivivus”, in Cartesian Nightmare: An Introduction to Transcendental Sophistry (Value Inquiry Book Series; 41), Amsterdam; Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 106:
      A thing is what the human will, under the influence of the light of the human intellect, overpoweredly judges must be and cannot not be.