overharshly

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adverb

In an excessively harsh manner.

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Meanings

adverboverharshly (comparative more overharshly, superlative most overharshly)

comparative more overharshly · superlative most overharshly

  1. In an excessively harsh manner.

    His early dreams haunted him like reproaches; and every morning he rose with the full purpose of pursuing some more settled plan: but he lacked motive, he had no one dependent on his industry; and every day he grew to care less and less for hopes, that he now overharshly held to be illusions.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 155
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