There are no wrenching epiphanies, just mild embarrassments and a surfeit of confusion.
The culture wars have presented us with a surfeit of either/ors.
We may have enough of justice in our character as rebels to give us a surfeit of it.
Her life had been unfortunate, and of horrors she had touched a surfeit.
Ay, and in the enjoyment of external beauty a sort of surfeit is engendered.
Adventure is all very well, but I have discovered that one can get a surfeit of it.
In the state it is all hunger at one end, and all surfeit at the other.
I fancied I had left them all behind me in the city, where one has such a surfeit of them.
She was ready to meet love with a surfeit of the rich gifts which she had at her command.
There was enough to surfeit twice as many persons as sat down to table.
early 14c., "excess quantity;" late 14c., "overindulgence," from Old French surfet "excess," noun use of past participle of surfaire "overdo," from sur- "over" (see sur-) + faire "do," from Latin facere "to make" (see factitious).
late 14c., from surfeit (n.). Related: Surfeited; surfeiting.
