单词 | overfluent |
释义 | overfluentadj. Excessively fluent. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > having abundant vocabulary > profuse > too fluent overfluent1626 effluvient1835 1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece ii. ii. 10 But now-a-dayes yee are not content onely to exact of the poore Ministers such vnreasonable prizes, but yee must get some by humane reasons and vnwarrantable authority to iustifie your Acts, training their ouerfluent wits, to proue the Word of God. 1650 A. Bradstreet Tenth Muse 3 I doe grudge, the Muses did not part 'Twixt him and me, that over-fluent store. 1897 Dict. National Biogr. XVIII. 691/1 [Her lyric verse] is over-fluent and deficient in concentration. 1959 Mod. Lang. Notes 74 184 She well characterizes the overfluent poet's style. 1988 MLN 103 1155 There is..nothing in either book that can match the overfluent panache of Seven Types. 2006 A. Karpf Human Voice iii. 46 We may all be actors, but the over-fluent voice draws uncomfortable attention to the degree of performance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1626 |
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