oversweeping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of oversweep

comparative more oversweeping · superlative most oversweeping

1. rareOverly sweeping.

   Now, hearing the man made conreate by that virile voice, her whole nature roused to defiance and to an oversweeping desire to see him face to face.

   1913, G. B Lancaster, The Law-bringers, Hodder and Stoughton, page 58

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   In this low portion there is here and there a rounded upswelling of more resist ing rock, with trends, all telling the same story of a vast oversweeping ice-flood from the north.

   1918, John Muir, William Frederic Bodè, The Cruise of the Corwin: /journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 113

   He had never been even in a magistrate's court, but he had heard the legends and traditions of the advocates; had read that eminent fiction, Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry, and a volume of Charles Philips's speeches, and had felt that strong inner going forth of the soul that yearned to find utterance in oversweeping reach.

   2018, A.G. Riddle, Bart Ridgeley, Outlook Verlag, →ISBN, page 76