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Definition of Overearnest
1. a. Too earnest.
Definition of Overearnest
1. Adjective. Excessively earnest ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overearnest
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overearnest
Literary usage of Overearnest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"... world is in Berlin at this Carnival time; but Friedrich has more to do with
business of a manifold and overearnest nature than with Carnival gayeties. ..."
2. The Play Way: An Essay in Educational Method by Henry Caldwell Cook (1917)
"All the fun is out of school, unrecognized and uncontrolled. All the study is in
school, an overearnest matter, unrelieved and ..."
3. Steps to Oratory: A School Speaker by Frank Townsend Southwick (1900)
"Yes, Cassius ; and from henceforth, When you are overearnest with your Brutus,
He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so. — SHAKESPEARE. ..."
4. Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1890)
"... levity enough of temper to keep its subject free from those depressions of
spirit and those cares of conscience which weigh and wear on the overearnest ..."
5. The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great by Edward McPherson (1882)
"... and that by an overearnest desire to reclaim by conciliation men whom you
believe to be sound at heart, but whose loyal ;y is more than suspected ..."
6. The Campaign Lives of Ulysses S. Grant, and Schuyler Colfax by James Sanks Brisbin (1868)
"... repellant, dreadfully overearnest man, with a skin, a stomach, and a soul,
equally dyspeptic. " Out of this population a face grows, now and then, ..."
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