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"obsolete"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tvǎrde",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "твърде"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prekomerno",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "прекомерно"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "excessivament"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "過於"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guòyú",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "过于"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "過分"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guòfèn",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "过分"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "過度地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guòdù de",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "过度地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "極度地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jídù de",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "极度地"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tài",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "太"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "liian"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "yli-"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "trop"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"note": "excessivement",
"sense": "to an excessive degree"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "excesivamente"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "zedmeṭad",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "ზედმეტად"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "meṭismeṭad",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "მეტისმეტად"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gadač̣arbebulad",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "გადაჭარბებულად"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "allzu"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "übermäßig"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "ró-"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "amari ni",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "あまりに"
},
{
"alt": "かどに",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kado ni",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "過度に"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "totemo",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "とても"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tottemo",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "とっても"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "nadmiernie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "zbytnio"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "demais"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "excessivamente"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "exageradamente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "črezmérno",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "чрезме́рно"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "slíškom",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "сли́шком"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izlíšne",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "изли́шне"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "izbýtočno",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "избы́точно"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "demasiadamente"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "excesivamente"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "alltför"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to an excessive degree",
"word": "över-"
}
],
"word": "overly"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English adverbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ly",
"English uncomparable adverbs"
],
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"2": "over",
"3": "ly"
},
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"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "over + -ly",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more overly",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most overly",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"args": {},
"expansion": "overly (comparative more overly, superlative most overly)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1602, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarium Sixe Bookes, London: Robert Dexter, Satire 3, page 52",
"roman": "I yeelded, tho he hop’d I would say Nay:",
"text": "The curteous Citizen bad me to his feast,\nWith hollow words, and ouerly request:\nCome, will ye dine with me this Holy day?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1627, Robert Sanderson, Ten Sermons, London: R. Dawlman, Sermon 3, p. 120",
"text": "Hee prayeth but with an ouerly desire, and not from the deepe of his heart, that will not bend his endeauours withall to obtaine what he desireth:",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1762, Henry Home, Lord Kames, Elements of Criticism, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Volume 1, Chapter 2, Part 7, p. 222",
"text": "Concerning the passions in particular, however irregular, headstrong, and perverse, in an overly view, they may appear, I propose to show, that they are by nature adjusted and tempered with admirable wisdom, for the good of society as well as for private good.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Superficial; not thorough; careless, negligent, inattentive."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1637, Joseph Hall, The Remedy of Prophanenesse, London: Nathanael Butter, Book 1, Section 8, p. 66",
"text": "Those that know no better, may rejoyce and exult in these worldly contentments; but those, who have had but a blink of the beauty of heaven, can look upon them no otherwise, than with an overly contemptuousnesse.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having a sense of superiority, haughty."
],
"links": [
[
"superiority",
"superiority"
],
[
"haughty",
"haughty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Having a sense of superiority, haughty."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1839, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Notes on Baxter’s Life of Himself”, in Henry Nelson Coleridge, editor, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volume 4, London: W. Pickering, page 140",
"text": "[…] there appears a very chilling want of open-heartedness on the part of Owen, produced perhaps by the somewhat overly and certainly most ungracious resentments of Baxter.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Excessive; too great."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Excessive; too great."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "overly"
}
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