overcoming

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overcoming

  1. present participle and gerund of overcome

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overcoming (plural overcomings)

  1. The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
    • 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.

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