overgreat
adjEtymology From Middle English overgrete; equivalent to over- + great.
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Excessively great.
- an overgreat reduction
- Oligarchies […] sometimes made men overgreat.
3 more examples
- He did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for their falsenesse or their overgreat power, being too high to fasten a real friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent [saying] to observe in all my life.1876, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., Bickers and Son, page 383:
- "We were cruel only to be kind, but I grant you that the feeling of being pursued is unpleasant. I had a longing to stay and fight it out with that dastardly Colonel. But it would have been overgreat a risk for you, and your safety was the main object. However, I have an instinct that I shall meet the fellow again, and then maybe shall 'have a chance of fighting him."1901, Edna Lyall, In Spite of All: A Novel, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 178:
- "I like it not, fair sir. The weight is overgreat," he whispered to the Prince.1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, W. Briggs, page 331: