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ˌover-ˈplease, v.
[over- 27.]
trans. To please too much. So ˈover-ˈpleased, ˈover-ˈpleasing ppl. adjs.
1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 132/2 An over-pleasing repose, and ever flourishing happinesse. 1626Bacon Sylva §835 The Senses love not to be Over-pleased; But to have a Commixture of somewhat that is in it selfe Ingrate. 1664Dryden Rival Ladies Ded., That eagerness of Imagination which by over-pleasing fanciful Men, flatters them into the Danger of Writing. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) II. x. 130 The insinuation..will not..be over-pleasing. 1888F. A. Gasquet Hen. VIII & Eng. Monast. I. 81 He was not overpleased at the difficulties that had been raised. |