overcoming

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of overcome

noun

  1. The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
    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. 2005, Daniel Conway, Nietzsche and the Political, page 87

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