OVERMASTER • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Overmaster

... revulsion of baffled and despairing passion all else is swept away, and there only survives in the self-clouded mind and soul the fixed resolve to secure that which for him has come to overmaster all allegiance. Strange and sad beyond all description are the sophistries under which the sinner strives to veil his sin,—by which to silence that still small voice which will not be hushed amid all that inward moil. Fedalma's earnest ...

— The Ethics of George Eliot's Works • John Crombie Brown