| 释义 |
ˈover-ˈfine, a.
[over- 28.]
Too fine; superfine; over-refined.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 243 Pure flowre for ouerfine breade. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iv. xx. (1713) 339 This fetch of yours is over-fine and witty. 1707Norris Treat. Humility vi. 273 Aiming at hard words, or an over⁓fine pronunciation of such as are common. 1862Athenæum 8 Nov. 588 The phrases ‘Our Feathered Families’, and ‘Birds of Song’ are, we submit, affected and over-fine.
Hence ˈover-ˈfineness.
1859Tennyson Vivien 645 (794) In the mouths of base interpreters, From over-fineness not intelligible..Is thy white blamelessness accounted blame! |