overpowerfulness en · NOUN
Etymology
From overpowerful + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being overpowerful.
What defences have we against this overpowerfulness of the bureaucrat?
1943 December, Christopher Hollis, “Mr. [Hilaire] Belloc’s Servile State and the Beveridge Plan”, in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, volume XXXII, number 128, Dublin: The Educational Company of Ireland […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 484:This solution is not perfect, and many people in France are against it as strongly as they are against the overpowerfulness of Paris, but I think it could help to provide a better urban mesh and create a better equilibrium inside our territory.
1974 March, Jacqueline Beaujeau-Garnier^([sic]), “Toward a New Equilibrium in France?”, in Fred E. Dohrs, Lawrence M. Sommers, editors, World Regional Geography: A Problem Approach, Saint Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., published 1976, →ISBN, page 173:In the tenth century there is evidence that the government was taking action against kin, its chosen instrument, where its overpowerfulness made it a menace to the state.
1972, Helen M. Jewell, “Police Functions”, in English Local Administration in the Middle Ages, Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles; New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Books, →ISBN, chapter 6 (The Keeping of the Peace and Defence), page 159: