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Definition of Oversanguine

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversanguine

Literary usage of Oversanguine

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

1. Appletons' Popular Science Monthly by William Jay Youmans (1896)
"dustry that may be offered by the oversanguine or the knavish. Aiid the attempts to obtain discounts by the oversanguine ..."

2. The Presidential Counts: A Complete Official Record of the Proceedings of (1877)
"I do not say that the Senator from Indiana is oversanguine ; but I am afraid that he is oversanguine in supposing that that day of political millennium has ..."

3. The Monetary and Banking Problem by Logan Grant McPherson (1896)
"And the attempts to obtain discounts by the oversanguine and the knavish are not limited to the offer of paper in excess of the amount abundantly necessary ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Good times may mean easy money and the unwary capitalist may loan his money to inexperienced, incapable, oversanguine or speculative investors. ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1859)
"Without, however, entering farther details, or venturing upon an oversanguine estimate o capabilities of this new field for the energy and enterprise of Em ..."

6. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"You probably know that oversanguine financing, lack of proper investigation, and in many instances faulty engineering, brought several of the Carey Act ..."

7. The Photographic History of the Civil War: Thousands of Scenes Photographed by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"... she will exact ransom and levy toll on every Northern seaport;" thus predicted the oversanguine Southern believers in her powers and prowess. ..."

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