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ˈover-ˈripe, a.
[over- 28.]
Too ripe. Also fig.
1671Milton P.R. iii. 31 Thy years are ripe, and over-ripe. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 8 [She] began to decline, and..dropped, like over-ripe fruit. 1862Miss Mulock Mistress & Maid xxiv, She refuses to drop into his mouth like an over-ripe peach from a garden wall.
Hence ˈover-ˈripeness.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 51 They are so full too, we lose half of them from over-ripeness. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career III. x. 183 Immense wealth and native obtuseness combine to disfigure us with the aspect of over-ripeness, not to say monstrosity. 1904[see hypermaturity s.v. hyper- IV.]. 1976Listener 12 Aug. 172/1 Henry James appraised Warwickshire... He felt a ripeness, he hints at an over-ripeness. |