Lexicographical Neighbors of Overelaboration
Literary usage of Overelaboration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"My early training with a view to becoming a painter, and my love of being out-
of-doors, possibly lead me into what some may regard as an overelaboration of ..."
2. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1903)
"The play suffers from a certain overelaboration in parts, eg, the almost exhaustive
poetical description of precious stones in the cabinet of rings (Act I.) ..."
3. American Masters of Sculpture: Being Brief Appreciations of Some American by Charles Henry Caffin (1903)
"... disposed to complain of an overelaboration in the decorative scheme, but at
least every item of the sculpture was organic and structural in intention. ..."
4. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"Its chief faults of style are repetition and overelaboration. The joy of discovering
significant truth is fairly worn away by the carefulness with which ..."
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