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1574 A. Gilby tr. Test. Twelue Patriarches sig. Diiii If you be ouerdarckened wyth wickednes.

1867 E. Sallesbury Children of Lake iv. 81 A great shade Came creeping down her forehead; there it paused, And hung and overdarkened all her face.

1900 H. James Abasement of Northmores in Soft Side i. 168 The monument that had over-darkened her was reared, but it would be within a week..the derision of intelligent London.

1969 C. White Rembrandt as Etcher I. vi. 163 One might hazard a guess that he felt that he had over-darkened the background, losing the original mysterious atmosphere.

2017 G. Rupp Introd. Ess. in R. E. Davies & G. Rupp Hist. Methodist Church Great Brit. I. p. xv This historical pedigree of so-called ‘Reformers before the Reformation’ was always one-sidedly drawn... It overdarkened the shadows, and to that extent distorted the medieval scene.