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

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

From Invisible Links by Lagerlöf, Selma

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

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

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

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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

What ails us to fear overmeasure, To praise thee with timorous breath, O mistress and mother of pleasure, The one thing as certain as death?

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles