1629 J. Donne Let. in Compl. Poetry & Sel. Prose (1929) 496 I know some persons in the world, that I wish may live..because I know their death would over-affect you.

1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xxi. 127 How can he be over-affected with triviall profits, or pleasures, who is taken up with the God of all comfort?

1955 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 14 8 Aesthetic appreciation cannot afterwards focus on the art object itself when held by the whole imaginative and emotional complex which the object brings back, and by which it is in turn over-affected.

1976 J. H. Harvey et al. New Direct. in Attribution Res. iv. xvii. 401 It is an interesting question whether social perceivers overuse and are overaffected by ambiguous information.

2000 ABA Banking Jrnl. (Nexis) Dec. 53 It's important to have a balance on the board and not to get overaffected from the Administration influence.