overshadowing
English edit
Verb edit
overshadowing
- present participle and gerund of overshadow
Noun edit
overshadowing (plural overshadowings)
- A dominating shadow or malign influence.
- 1831, Thomas Smith Grimké, Reflections on the Character and Objects of All Science and Literature:
- Such trials to a peaceful people, only enhance their love of peace; for the grief-stricken heart flees to retirement and tranquillity. At the overshadowings of such afflictions, I should never tremble for my country, much less should I despair […]