单词 | overfree |
释义 | overfreeadj. Excessively free; too generous; too frank or uninhibited. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [adjective] > by undue familiarity familiara1393 over-familiar1529 overfree1570 particular1612 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1272/2 I will leaue out Christes aunswere, lest I should bee thought ouer free and playne in..vttryng of abusions. 1633 F. Windebank Let. 20 Nov. in Earl of Strafford Lett. & Disp. (1739) I. 161 You made many ill Faces with your Pen (pardon I beseech your Lordship the over free Censure of your Vandyking). 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xiv. 132 His valour was not over-free, but would well answer the spurre when need required. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. ii. 13 An over-free or negligent Behaviour in a Lady. 1821 J. Galt Ayrshire Legatees vi. 136 Andrew Pringle..is over free and out spoken. 1887 Cent. Mag. June 167/1 I cannot quite think that any Frenchman..would ever have designed in so unscholastic, so overfree a fashion. 1915 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 5 102 It is not so advisable for him to display his local learning by the over-free use of place names. 1992 J. Holland in First Fictions Introd. 11 151 He wandered back up the hill into the town. With no map in his hand, he felt naked and overfree. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1570 |
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