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overliver en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈlɪvə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From overlive + -er.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:otherwise obsolete) A survivor.
   • Hereupon a Peace was concluded, which was publiſhed a little before Chriſtmaſſe, in the Fourteenth yeare of the Kings Raigne, to continue for both the Kings liues, and the ouer-liuer of them, and a yeare after. 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 191:

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