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The term “domineer” appears in literature as a vivid expression of exerting oppressive power or control, appearing in contexts as varied as personal relationships to societal structures. In Dickens’ narrative, for instance, it signals a refusal to be subjugated by a master’s authority ([1]), while Livy uses it to underscore the dynamics of power among the patricians ([2]). Hobbes extends its metaphorical reach by describing supernatural forces that similarly dominate entire regions ([3]). Chekhov’s work brings the concept into the everyday, portraying a workplace where one man tyrannizes over his clerks and customers ([4]). Rousseau contrasts the idea of violent domination with forced submission to caprices ([5]), and personal narratives such as those by Helen Keller and George Eliot reveal its presence in intimate relationships—whether as a manifestation of one partner’s tyranny or as a reason for another’s eventual rejection of such control ([6], [7]).
  1. ‘I shall, soon enough, be put out, though, if anybody tries to domineer it over me: and so I give you notice, master.
    — from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
  2. And are you not to know any contest against the patricians, except how you may suffer them to domineer over you?
    — from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy
  3. The Fairies also have their enchanted Castles, and certain Gigantique Ghosts, that domineer over the Regions round about them.
    — from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  4. He sits all his life at his work, likes it only because he can domineer over his clerks and get the better of his customers.
    — from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  5. Some, it is said, would violently domineer over others, who would groan under a servile submission to their caprices.
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. It pleased me to domineer over her, and she generally submitted to my tyranny rather than risk a hand-to-hand encounter.
    — from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  7. "Let her go, and the sooner the better; she won't be trying to domineer over me again in a hurry."
    — from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

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