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Overtower  v. i.  To soar too high. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Overtower" Quotes from Famous Books



... recognize, the docile and almost slavish adherence to ancient Confucianism is one of the astonishing things in the history of religions in Japan. In the field of Buddhism we have a luxuriant growth of new and strange species of colossal weeds that overtower and seem to have choked out whatever furze of original Buddhism there was in Japan, while in the domain of Confucianism there is a barren heath. Whereas, in China, the voluminous literature created by commentators on Confucius and the commentaries ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis



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