oversanguine

comparative more oversanguine · superlative most oversanguine · alternative over-sanguine

1. Too sanguine; overconfident, too disposed to hopes of success.

   In that respect the popular clamor for "smashing" the rebels was based on sound if oversanguine instinct.

   1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 335

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   So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine.

   1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 571