Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To love to excess; prize or value too much.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To love to excess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
love too much.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Battered and the Pipes Shattered about their Eares, that idely Idolize so base and barbarous a Weed, or at least overlove so loathsome a
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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Self-opinion and self-love are the great strong holds which the gospel sets itself to beat down; for by nature we are as prone to overvalue as to overlove ourselves; but in both of them there is a kind of spiritual fulness and repletion, which must be removed and carried off, before the gospel can have its effect upon us.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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The title of this tirade is very quaint, viz. "Tobacco battered, and the Pipes shattered (about their Ears who idly idolize so base and barbarous a Weed; or at least-wise overlove so loathsome a Vanity) by a Volley of holy Shot from Mount Helicon."
The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821
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And he the horizons can make to joy and lovers with overlove can destroy, nor shall any after his decease such excellence of speech employ. "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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