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surfeitive en · ADJ

Etymology

From surfeit + -ive.

Meanings

1. excessive
   • They lay thick, viscid underfoot, sweet and oversweet in the nostrils with a sweetness surfeitive and moribund, and at night now the ragged shadow of full-fledged leaves pulsed upon the barred window in shabby rise and fall. 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Library of America, published 1985, page 86:

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