domineering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of domineer

adj

1. Overbearing, dictatorial or authoritarian.

noun

1. The act of one who domineers.

   “In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.”