单词 | over-highly |
释义 | over-highlyadv. Too highly; extremely highly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adverb] overlyOE overswitheOE over-micklec1230 overmucha1382 over-measurea1387 overdonec1390 overlargelyc1390 overfara1400 superflue?a1425 overgatea1450 overdonelyc1450 over-highlyc1454 excessivelyc1460 superfluously1528 stinkingly1545 excessive1569 over-greatly1599 unmercifully1611 overgrownly1668 extravagantlya1715 preponderously1835 faultily1855 c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 93 (MED) Þe oþire vertues..mowe haue vicis..bi..ouer hiȝli takyng sum circumstaunce longyng to þe verri vertu. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxv. §4. 596 Neither of these two Authors is ouer-highly commended of trustinesse. 1884 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 273/2 Pickering, on the other hand, is complimented somewhat over-highly when he is ranked beside Adams and Hamilton as a rival ‘third leader’. 1939 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 11 238 Mr. Jessup does not seem to evaluate overhighly his work at the Washington Conference. 1983 Internat. Affairs 59 783 When he categorizes General Maxwell Taylor as ‘highly sophisticated and perhaps over-highly educated’..he is not being complimentary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1454 |
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