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ˈover-ˈgreat, a.
[over- 28.]
Too great, excessive.
[c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 95 Ffor whan a man hath ouer greet a wit fful oft hym happeth to mysusen it.] 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. xii. 32 In an ouergrete quantite is confusion. 1583Proclam. Privy Council 14 Jan., Inconueniences happening by the ouergreat libertie of late vsed in riding poste. 1774Foote Cozeners ii. Wks. 1799 II. 179, I am at no time an over-great eater. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. xi. 237 In good hours we do not find Shakspeare or Homer over-great,—only to have been translators of the happy present.
So ˈover-ˈgreatly adv., too greatly, excessively; ˈover-ˈgreatness, excessive greatness.
[1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 425/2 Over gretly empoverysched, or elles..over gretly charged.] 1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 75 They feared the ouergreatnesse of the vantgard, and that they were more neare to the maine army. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 142 Two..horse-leeches which neuer lin sucking it, will never suffer it to swell over-greatly in treasure. 1675tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iii. (1688) 415 By reason of the Over-greatness and Sluggishness of the Spanish Ships. |