overgrace

verb

overgrace

verb

Etymology From over- + grace.

1

To grace excessively.

  • Though this be worse Than that you spake before, it strikes me not; / But that you think to overgrace me with / The marriage of your Sister, troubles me.1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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