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English
Etymology
From Middle English overgrete; equivalent to over- + great.
Adjective
overgreat (comparative more overgreat, superlative most overgreat)
- Excessively great.
- an overgreat reduction
- Oligarchies sometimes made men overgreat.
1876, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., Bickers and Son, page 383:He did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for their falsenesse or their overgreat power, being too high to fasten a real friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent to observe in all my life.
1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel, W. Briggs, page 331:"I like it not, fair sir. The weight is overgreat," he whispered to the Prince.
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