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Definition of Overthinking
1. overthink [v] - See also: overthink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overthinking
Literary usage of Overthinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jean Jules Jusserand (1908)
"His propensity to overthinking is apparent in many places in his writings,
especially in his cc Arcadia/' where he made so little use of the comical ..."
2. Four Victorian Poets: A Study of Clough, Arnold, Rossetti, Morris; with an by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1908)
"Life is slipping away in overthinking, in this way and that dividing the swift mind.
The soul, while he is young, is growing old in a diseased confusion. ..."
3. Representative Modern Preachers by Lewis Orsmond Brastow (1904)
"... out of his overthinking," is not wholly clear. The development of this sceptical
attitude toward the intellect as the organ of religious knowledge, ..."
4. A Study of Clough, Arnold, Rossetti and Morris: With an Introd. on the by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1908)
"When the Prince is suddenly flung into the storm of action, he takes momentarily
a fierce part in it, and enjoys it, till overthinking again seizes on him. ..."
5. Representative Modern Preachers by Lewis Orsmond Brastow (1904)
"... naturalistic and rationalistic basis of thought upon the problems of religion,
and " to think himself out of his overthinking," is not wholly clear. ..."
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