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"etymology_text": "over- + say",
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},
{
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"ref": "1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial",
"text": "Here you are safe , sad cousin ; if you please , May over-say the circumstance of what You late discours'd",
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"To say over again; to repeat."
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