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Definition of Overinformed
1. overinform [v] - See also: overinform
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overinformed
Literary usage of Overinformed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Japan at First Hand: Her Islands, Their People, the Picturesque, the Real by Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke (1918)
"... was not to be overinformed about that end of the affair. Pleased? Proud?
Well Really there is an endless politeness about these people. ..."
2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... sharp in feature, with a muddled complexion, wild sunburnt hair, and eyes
whose very brightness had in them something startling, overinformed, ..."
3. The Level of Social Motion: An Inquiry Into the Future Conditions of Human by Michael A. Lane (1902)
"The word "man" is a fine bugbear, and has long served the purpose of frightening
timid persons who were not overinformed in the truths of natural history. ..."
4. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"... sharp in feature, with a muddled complexion, wild sunburnt hair, and eyes
whose very brightness had in them something startling, overinformed, ..."
5. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"... sharp in feature, with a muddled complexion, wild sunburnt hair, and eyes
whose very brightness had in them something startling, overinformed, ..."
6. The Long Road of Woman's Memory by Jane Addams (1916)
"fairly overinformed us as to the use of the fairy tale with children. The little
room was stuffed with a magpie collection, the usual odds and ends which ..."
7. Zeitschrift für neusprachlichen Unterricht (1907)
"he hardly appeared of this world; his slight frame was overinformed by the soul
that dwelt within. He was all mind; "man but a rush against'' his breast and ..."
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