high-wrought
[hahy-rawt]
- highly agitated; overwrought.
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Origin of high-wrought
First recorded in 1595–1605
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Historical Examples
She understood not his high-wrought scruples, his self-deluding belief.
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
It is fine as a poem: it is finer as a piece of high-wrought eloquence.
Hazlitt on English LiteratureJacob Zeitlin
Our author is not true to nature—he is extravagant, high-wrought.
These principles were not flashes of a high-wrought imagination; they were practical.
Sketches of the CovenantersJ. C. McFeeters
But this high-wrought brilliancy, this unceasing point, soon fatigue.
From Chaucer to TennysonHenry A. Beers