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Overly
Definitions
- 1 Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive. obsolete
"The curteous Citizen bad me to his feast, With hollow words, and ouerly request: Come, will ye dine with me this Holy day? I yeelded, tho he hop’d I would say Nay:"
- 2 Having a sense of superiority, haughty. obsolete
"Those that know no better, may rejoyce and exult in these worldly contentments; but those, who have had but a blink of the beauty of heaven, can look upon them no otherwise, than with an overly contemptuousnesse."
- 3 Excessive; too great. obsolete
"[…] there appears a very chilling want of open-heartedness on the part of Owen, produced perhaps by the somewhat overly and certainly most ungracious resentments of Baxter."
- 1 To an excessive degree. not-comparable, proscribed, sometimes
"Parents can be overly protective of their children."
- 2 To a high degree; very. negative, not-comparable, usually
"I'm not overly enthusiastic about meeting him."
- 3 Superficially. not-comparable, obsolete
"1566, Thomas Blundeville, The Fower Chiefyst Offices Belongyng to Horsemanshippe, London, “The true Arte of Paring, and shooyng all maner of Houes together […] ,” Chapter 5, […] let him not touche the quarters nor the heeles at al, vnlesse it be to make the seat of the shoe playne, & let that be done so superficially or ouerly as maye be, so shall the houes remayne alwayes strong."
- 4 Carelessly, without due attention. not-comparable, obsolete
"[…] you shall finde this, that all remissenesse, when a man doth a thing remissely, and ouerly, and perfunctorily, it argues alway a diuided intention, it is an argument that the whole minde is not set on it, but that the intention is distracted, and bestowed on other things:"
- 5 With a sense of superiority, haughtily. not-comparable, obsolete
"The third [vice] is Arrogancie, and the fourth Pride, two vices neer a kinne, Cosen germans […] when men shall arrogate much unto themselves; looking overly and superciliously upon others."
- 1 to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits wordnet
Etymology
From over + -ly (adverbial suffix).
From over + -ly (adjectival suffix).
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