Definitions
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- adjective Too late; exceedingly late.
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- adjective Too
late ; exceedingly late.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am so overlate, Linda is going to kill me, or she will unplug my oxygen which is the same thing haha!
Hate, fear, exclusion and pain. Elizabeth McClung 2009
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And we would have done, had we not slept overlate.
Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003
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'Of a truth,' said the porter, ''tis overlate for leaves.
King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls Henry Gilbert
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But he had yielded overlate to leave a good impression and, as Kenneth turned away, it was with a curse upon Galliard, for whom his detestation seemed to increase at every step.
The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Kenneth replied that the hour was overlate to be setting out upon
The Tavern Knight Rafael Sabatini 1912
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'Aye!' she said, 'they ha' been long forgotten in these places; I deem it is overlate to call them to mind. '
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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He sniggered, and with overlate politeness tried to cut his snigger off short.
Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873
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By the lips of Sigurd spoken she remembereth overlate;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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And thou meseemeth art overlate on the field: the mowing of this meadow is no sluggard's work. '
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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The king closes with the hope that the prince's "natural inclination will have a happie simpathie with these precepts; making the wise man's schoolmaister, which is the example of others, to be your teacher; and not that overlate repentance by your own experience, which is the schoolmaister of fools."
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807
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