1664 H. Bold Poems xxxv. 47 Passion, might have made it's action, But Over loving turn'd to sin, for I seem'd, as design'd thereby, Meerly for to Encrease and Multiply.

1682 T. D'Urfey Royalist ii. ii. 18 I do suspect thou hast kill'd thy Husband, who might be such a Fool as you were speaking of, and break his heart with over-loving.

1898 B. Carman By Aurleian Wall 76 They say you loved too many, Loved too often, loved too well. Just as if there could be any Over-loving, Raphael!

1992 Afr. Amer. Rev. 26 31/1 The shock is too great for Paul D, and he accuses her of overloving.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Ee.iii See, for y^t she was ouerlouing [It. troppo amoreuole] she did yll to herselfe, to her husbande and to her children.

1592 G. Harvey Foure Lett. 44 One of those vnsatyricall Satyres, which M. Spencer long since embraced with an ouerloouing Sonnet.

1696 M. Pix Ibrahim v. 36 If thou in honour, as in valour still excell'st, Forgive thy over-loving Friend.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 109 Extreme love and sorrowing overmuch Vex the great gods, and overloving men Slay and are slain for love's sake.

1934 A. M. Lindbergh Let. in Locked Rooms & Open Doors (1974) 208 Of course, both losing a child and not having another tend to make me overloving.

2001 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 4 Nov. 17 A gay man who..became gay as a result of an over-loving relationship with his mother.