oversweeping
adj/ˌəʊvəˈswiːpɪŋ/
Etymology From over- + sweeping.
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Rare Overly sweeping.
- Now, hearing the man made conreate by that virile voice, her whole nature roused to defiance and to an oversweeping desire to see him face to face.1913, G. B Lancaster, The Law-bringers, Hodder and Stoughton, page 58:
- In this low portion there is here and there a rounded upswelling of more resist ing rock, with trends, all telling the same story of a vast oversweeping ice-flood from the north.1918, John Muir, William Frederic Bodè, The Cruise of the Corwin: /journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 113:
1 more example
- He had never been even in a magistrate's court, but he had heard the legends and traditions of the advocates; had read that eminent fiction, Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry, and a volume of Charles Philips's speeches, and had felt that strong inner going forth of the soul that yearned to find utterance in oversweeping reach.2018, A.G. Riddle, Bart Ridgeley, Outlook Verlag, →ISBN, page 76: