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Definition of Overwearying
1. overweary [v] - See also: overweary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwearying
Literary usage of Overwearying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1857)
"familiarity rendered all such scenes of natural beauty unexciting, if not
indifferent to them, by lulling and overwearying the imagination as far as it was ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"In this space, the Earl of Lincoln entered Yorkshire, by easy journies ; for,
not overwearying his princely nephew, unaccustomed to travel, and, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"This perfect familiarity ren- ' dered all such scenes of natural beauty '
unexciting, if not indifferent, to them, ' by lulling and overwearying the ima- ..."
4. Notes on the Life of Noah Webster by Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford, Fowler Ford, Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel (1912)
"Your ' overwearying fondness for Morse and Griffin and all that may be called
Andover' was mentioned to me. I think I have the expressions. ..."
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