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Definition of Overrefined
1. Adjective. Excessively delicate or refined.
Definition of Overrefined
1. Verb. (past of overrefine) ¹
2. Adjective. Refined to an excessive degree ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overrefined
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrefined
Literary usage of Overrefined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"If this fore-school of love be necessary to the complete fulfilment of its object,
we can now appreciate its degradations in lazy, loveless, overrefined ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"People of refinement in the States are overrefined : they talk like books, and
everywhere obtrude their superior education.' Americans, on the other hand, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"... have been described, and while doubtless the specific differentiation is
overrefined, it emphasizes the abundance of Nyssa in New England at that time. ..."
4. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson by Gideon Welles (1911)
"Weed and Raymond have overrefined and irreparably injured the cause of the
Administration. In doing this they have also destroyed their own influence. ..."
5. The Passing of the Great Race; Or, The Racial Basis of European History by Madison Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921)
"It is, however, a sturdy and persistent stock and, while much of it may not be
overrefined or cultured, undoubtedly possesses great potentialities for ..."
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