单词 | oversharply |
释义 | oversharplyadv. With excessive sharpness; in an excessively harsh or severe manner. ΚΠ c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 61 (MED) Raþir ouer litil and ouer neischli y haue write aȝens þis vnwijsdom..þan ouer mych or ouer scharpli. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. x. 474 Gif tha tuouche ouer scharplie, tha be suspected of Jnuious persounis. 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. viii. ix I am of opinion, that such men ought not to be over-sharpely reproved, as do injurie to him, who seeketh for it. 1902 E. Untermann tr. F. Engels Origin Family, Private Property & State 127 On the whole we seem to have the custom or law of primogeniture sufficiently, but not oversharply defined. 1945 Ethics 55 178/2 The role of a colonial government, as Adam Smith pointed out oversharply in the Wealth of Nations, is even in some respects antithetical. 1977 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 19 320 Bluntly, and therefore over-sharply, stated, policy and political authority moved to the centre. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1454 |
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