overflow
verb (used without object)
to flow or run over, as rivers or water.
overflowingly
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a word derived from
overflow.
Example Sentences
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Never before had Georgina seen her so radiant, so excited, so overflowingly happy that she gave vent to her feelings as a little schoolgirl might have done.
From Georgina of the Rainbows by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Thus all our real soul life, in proportion to its depth, moves in Partial Simultaneity; and it apprehends, requires and rests, at its deepest, in an overflowingly rich Pure Simultaneity.
From Progress and History by Francis Sydney Marvin
Yes, the Prayer Book is, whatever else it is, searchingly, overflowingly Scriptural; full of the Bible, full of Christ.
From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule
Crag Cottage was almost overflowingly full the first night after the arrival of its young mistress and her friends, but with a little contrivance all were comfortably accommodated.
From Elsie on the Hudson by Martha Finley
That is, so overflowingly shall the knowledge of God break forth, as when a mass of water gushes up and rushes forth and swallows up a whole land.
From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by E. H. (Ezra Hall) Gillett
