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- adjective Excessively
fine
Etymologies
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over- + fine
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Examples
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In the strict sense overfine speeches are yet almost everywhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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The constant effort to relieve the sense of this affords him the most admirable openings for the display of his exquisite style, of which he seldom or never fails to make the very most in this regard; but the necessity laid upon him to aim at securing a sense of relief by this is precisely the same as led him to write the overfine speeches in the plays, as Mr Pinero found and pointed out at
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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