oversweeping

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ sweeping.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌəʊvəˈswiːpɪŋ/
  • Hyphenation: o‧ver‧sweep‧ing

Verb

oversweeping

  1. present participle and gerund of oversweep

Adjective

oversweeping (comparative more oversweeping, superlative most oversweeping)

  1. (rare) Overly sweeping.
    • 1913, G. B Lancaster, The Law-bringers‎, Hodder and Stoughton, page 58:
      Now, hearing the man made conreate by that virile voice, her whole nature roused to defiance and to an oversweeping desire to see him face to face.
    • 1918, John Muir, William Frederic Bodè, The Cruise of the Corwin: /journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette‎, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 113:
      In this low portion there is here and there a rounded upswelling of more resist ing rock, with trends, all telling the same story of a vast oversweeping ice-flood from the north.
    • 2018, A.G. Riddle, Bart Ridgeley‎, Outlook Verlag, →ISBN, page 76:
      He had never been even in a magistrate's court, but he had heard the legends and traditions of the advocates; had read that eminent fiction, Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry, and a volume of Charles Philips's speeches, and had felt that strong inner going forth of the soul that yearned to find utterance in oversweeping reach.

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