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overaffect en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + affect.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To have too great an effect on.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To care for unduly or excessively.
   • We forfeit many favours, by overaffecting them. 1649-1650, John Trapp, A clavis to the Bible:
   • And take thou heed of over-affecting, overvaluing the gifts of any man so, as that thou take the voice of an Angell, for the voyce of the Archangell, any thing that that man saies, for the word of God. 1640, John Donne, LXXX sermons preached by that learned and reverend divine, Iohn Donne, Dr in Divinity, late Deane of the cathedrall church of S. Pauls London:
   • if those that overaffect antiquity will follow the square thereof, their bishops must be elected by the hands of the whole church 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:

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