overmeasure

American  

[oh-ver-mezh-er] / ˈoʊ vərˌmɛʒ ər /

noun

1. an excessive or surplus measure or amount.

   an overmeasure of exuberance.

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Etymology

Origin of overmeasure

First recorded in 1575–85; over- + measure

Example Sentences

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overmeasure

Society returns him good for evil in the most extravagant overmeasure.

From Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw

How can you preach fasting, you, who wish to deluge me with such an overmeasure of sorrow?

From Invisible Links by Selma Lagerlöf

Her heavy looks were often turned toward the hermitage-mountain; at evening she herself visited it, and brought to the sleeper the last offering which friendship has then to give, in overmeasure.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

Then fell there joy and bliss in overmeasure that night upon both palaces of the Canal Grande.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

If any one thinks this is overmeasure of praise, let him look at the "Letter H" school, now become a type, and see what he thinks of it.

From The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis