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overmany en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English over-many, overmany, ovyrmany; equivalent to over- + many. Compare overmuch.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Too many.
   • Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 15:

overmany en · PRON

Etymology

From Middle English over-many, overmany, ovyrmany; equivalent to over- + many. Compare overmuch.

Meanings

1. Too many.
   • “Now, nominations for the council – but not over-many,” the Chancellor moved. 2012, Nigel Tranter, Lion's Whelp:
   • Have we not God hys wrath, for Goddes wrath, and a thousand of the same stampe, wherein the corrupte orthography in the most hath been the sole or principal cause of corrupte prosodye in overmany? 1580, Gabriel Harvey, (Please provide the book title or journal name):