It has nothing hideous in it, and only the view is beautiful; it shares nothing with the city except the overarching sky.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— forming an arch overhead
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Macmillan
— affecting or including everything, and therefore very important
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Collins
— You use overarching to indicate that you are talking about something that includes or affects everything or everyone.
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Usage
1 use of ‘overarching’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster