overaffect

present singular third person overaffects · participle present overaffecting · participle past overaffected · past overaffected

1. transitiveTo have too great an effect on.
2. obsoletetransitiveTo care for unduly or excessively.

   We forfeit many favours, by overaffecting them.

   1649-1650, John Trapp, A clavis to the Bible

   2 more examples

   if those that overaffect antiquity will follow the square thereof, their bishops must be elected by the hands of the whole church

   1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC

   And take thou heed of over-affecting, overvaluing the gifts of any man so, as that thou take the voice of an Angell, for the voyce of the Archangell, any thing that that man saies, for the word of God.

   1640, John Donne, LXXX sermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, Iohn Donne, Dr in Divinity, late Deane of the cathedrall church of S. Pauls London