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ˈover-ˈcunning, n. [over- 29 d.] Excess of cunning; too great knowingness.
1603Florio Montaigne iii. i. (1632) 446 Truely they make my cunning overcunning. 1616Rich Cabinet 80 Knauery is an ouercunning of wit and craft, which hath twenty tricks to cozen others. 1640Habington Edw. IV 31 This I believe an overcunning in conjecture. So ˈover-ˈcunning a., too cunning; ˌover-ˈcunning v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to manage too cunningly.
a1634Marston (Webster), Unadvisedly overcunning in misunderstanding me. 1801Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. IV. 5 Loughborough and Auckland appear to have over-cunning'd the business. |