Definitions
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- adv. So as to overflow; very excessively or generously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. In great abundance; exuberantly.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an overflowing manner; exuberantly; in great abundance.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating — alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical.
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Some of the impressions you mention are of an overflowingly large family, religious pictures on the walls, and saying the rosary together on holy days.
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Street, were not quite as overflowingly high as when she had started out, they were good enough to make her smile to herself and to every one she met during the rest of the day, and to hum gay little tunes when no one was near, and altogether to feel very happy and pleased and possessed by the conviction that something delightful was about to happen.
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Nor has any people known to history shown a greater reverence and love for their Christian teachers, or filled the measure of a grateful return more overflowingly.
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In that charmed circle he was as overflowingly happy as if he had been admitted to the company of the gods.
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For Love itself, the benefactor of things that be, pre-existing overflowingly in the Good, did not permit itself to remain unproductive in itself, but moved itself to creation [36], as befits the overflow which is generative of all.
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Never before had Georgina seen her so radiant, so excited, so overflowingly happy that she gave vent to her feelings as a little schoolgirl might have done.
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Truesdale found himself wondering whether his aunt's intense allegiance to the idea of married life was the sincere expression of a nature overflowingly affectionate, or a species of sensitive dissimulation cloaking a disappointment which, by this time, might well have come to be numbered among the bygones.
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She leaked fully, generously, overflowingly, all over -- like a basket.
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It is overflowingly full of those sensuous images and descriptions of the
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