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n. - The trait of being imperious and overbearing.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Adjective : domineering parents
  • He would never have thought about talking about his mother's domineeringness, or his feelings about Lucy Mercer.
  • He was so dictatorial that his fellow directors were left in cabal over the increasing domineeringness of old Forsyte, which they were far from intending to stand much...
  • 'Because I said he didn't care -- and he doesn't, it's only his domineeringness that's hurt --' she said, her mouth pulled awry by her weeping, all the time she spoke,...
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