All 5 Uses of
domineering
in
Moby Dick
- In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.†
Chpt 34-36
- To this, Radney replied with an oath, in a most domineering and outrageous manner unconditionally reiterating his command; meanwhile advancing upon the still seated Lakeman, with an uplifted cooper's club hammer which he had snatched from a cask near by.†
Chpt 52-54
- Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so.†
Chpt 79-81 *
- The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis.†
Chpt 85-87
- It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.†
Chpt 130-132
Definition:
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(domineering) tending to exercise control over others in an autocratic manner