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Definition of Overlove
1. v. t. To love to excess.
Definition of Overlove
1. Verb. To love too much. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overlove
1. to love to excess [v -LOVED, -LOVING, -LOVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlove
Literary usage of Overlove
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience by Richard Baxter (1825)
"Why doth the worldling overlove his wealth, and the proud man his greatness and
repute, and the sensualist his pleasures, but because they first ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"... who idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at least-wise overlove so
loathsome a vanity,) by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon. ..."
3. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"... pain support Know out love's heart o'er borne by overlove, For my desire that
is so firm and straight And unchanged since I found her in my sight And ..."
4. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"There is a love of country which is at once reasonable and commendable, but one
should beware lest an overlove of this or any other earthly blessing loosen ..."
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