overcoming

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Verb

1. present participle of overcome#English|overcome

Noun

overcoming (plural overcomings)

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

     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.

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