LekhoriLekhoriTo surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
But sith this wretched woman ouercome / Of anguish, rather then of crime hath beene,
To prevail.
Hee that ouercommeth, the same shalbe clothed in white raiment, and I will not blot out his name out of the booke of life, but I will confesse his name before my Father, and before his Angels.
To recover from (a difficulty), to get over.
The burden or recurring theme in a song.
A surplus.
That has been overcome, prevailed over.
Inherited from Middle English overcomen, inherited from Old English ofercuman (“to overcome, subdue, compel, conquer, obtain, attain, reach, overtake”). By surface analysis, over- + come. Cognate with...
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