Overmany
adj, pron ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Too many. not-comparable
"Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers."
- 1 Too many.
"Have we not God hys wrath, for Goddes wrath, and a thousand of the same stampe, wherein the corrupte orthography in the most hath been the sole or principal cause of corrupte prosodye in overmany?"
Example
More examples"Have we not God hys wrath, for Goddes wrath, and a thousand of the same stampe, wherein the corrupte orthography in the most hath been the sole or principal cause of corrupte prosodye in overmany?"
Etymology
From Middle English over-many, overmany, ovyrmany; equivalent to over- + many. Compare overmuch.
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