Crossword-Solution: GOVERNED 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Governed imp. & p. p. of Govern

We have 7 clues for the answer “GOVERNED”

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Kept in check 4 answers
Held in check 5 answers
Held sway 5 answers
Ran the show 6 answers
Led the way 7 answers
answerable 44 answers
controlled 50 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GOVERNED (5)

She said frankly that she knew nothing about such things, and she was willing to be governed by the general conviction that the more useless and utterly unusable objects were, the greater their virtue as ornament.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Bathsheba, though she had too much understanding to be entirely governed by her womanliness, had too much womanliness to use her understanding to the best advantage.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
The Gaza Strip is currently governed by Israeli military authorities and Israeli civil administration; it is US policy that the final status of the Gaza Strip will be determined by negotiations among the concerned parties; these negotiations will determine how this area is to be governed.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
And because we have all to pass through a state of infancy to manhood, and have been of necessity, for a length of time, governed by our desires and preceptors (whose dictates were frequently conflicting, while neither perhaps always counseled us for the best), I farther concluded that it is almost impossible that our judgments can be so correct or solid as they would have been, had our reason been mature from the moment of our birth, and had we always been guided by it alone.
A Discourse on Method René Descartes 1995
The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to,—for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well,—is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau 1993

Quotes with GOVERNED (3)

Here we must take account of one of St. Thomas's conceptual distinctions, which at first seems like unnecessary caviling. It is the distinction between "uncreated" and "created" happiness. We have here something which, while not at all obvious, is nevertheless fraught with consequences for our whole feeling about life. Namely, this: what does indeed make us happy is the infinite and uncreated richness of God; but participation in this, happiness itself, is entirely a "creatur…
Josef Pieper Happiness and Contemplation
You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
Voltaire
With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.
Roman Payne
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1970–2009).