overgreatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

overgreat (comparative more overgreat, superlative most overgreat)

1. 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 [saying] to observe in all my life.

   • 1901, Edna Lyall, In Spite of All: A Novel‎, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 178:

     "We were cruel only to be kind, but I grant you that the feeling of being pursued is unpleasant. I had a longing to stay and fight it out with that dastardly Colonel. But it would have been overgreat a risk for you, and your safety was the main object. However, I have an instinct that I shall meet the fellow again, and then maybe shall 'have a chance of fighting him."

   • 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.

参照

• “overgreat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.