Definition of Overnear

1. too near [adj] - See also: near

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overnear

overmounted
overmounting
overmounts
overmuch
overmuches
overmuchness
overmultiplied
overmultiplies
overmultiply
overmultiplying
overmultitude
overmuscled
overname
overnamed
overnames
overnear (current term)
overneat
overnet
overnets
overnew
overnice
overniceness
overnight
overnight bag
overnight capital cost
overnight case
overnighted
overnighter
overnighters
overnighting

Literary usage of Overnear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"Swift voice, like flight of dove Through minster arches floating, With sudden turns, when love Gets overnear to doting; Keen lips, that shape soft sayings ..."

2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"... Though stirred by every breeze: Swift voice, like flight of dove Through minster arches floating, With sudden turns, when love Gets overnear to doting; ..."

3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"... Though stirred by every breeze: Swift voice, like flight of dove Through minster arches floating, With sudden, turns, when love Gets overnear to doting; ..."

4. The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright (1911)
"... because he was avoided seeing could not trust ing his attitude r will and Abe's guarded himself suffering and perhaps , ha(j overnear(J death yesterday ..."

5. The Book of Love by Madison Julius Cawein (1911)
"... Though stirred by every breeze ; Swift voice, like flight of dove Through minster-arches floating, With sudden turns, when love Gets overnear to doting ..."

6. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"... were forced, unless they would join with infidels, to match sometimes overnear to themselves ; as even Abraham himself, the father of the faithful, ..."

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