Meanings
- archaicnot comparablerareToo few; not enough.
[…] Against thyself, thyself far overfew / To front yon multitudes of rebel scheming?
1877, Sidney Lanier, Poems, page 56
- archaicrareToo few; not enough.
"There were," said Sir James Melville, "overfew to comfort her."
2022, Charles Williams, James I
Origin
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