overgreat

comparative more overgreat · superlative most overgreat

1. Excessively great.

   an overgreat reduction

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   Oligarchies […] sometimes made men overgreat.

   He did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for their falsenesse or their overgreat power, being too high to fasten a real friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent [saying] to observe in all my life.

   1876, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., Bickers and Son, page 383

   "We were cruel only to be kind, but I grant you that the feeling of being pursued is unpleasant. I had a longing to stay and fight it out with that dastardly Colonel. But it would have been overgreat a risk for you, and your safety was the main object. However, I have an instinct that I shall meet the fellow again, and then maybe shall 'have a chance of fighting him."

   1901, Edna Lyall, In Spite of All: A Novel, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 178

   "I like it not, fair sir. The weight is overgreat," he whispered to the Prince.

   1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, W. Briggs, page 331