"oversevere" meaning in English

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + severe",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more oversevere",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most oversevere",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "oversevere (comparative more oversevere, superlative most oversevere)",
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "o‧ver‧sev‧ere"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1817, United States Government Printing Office, United States Congressional Serial Set, U.S. G.P.O., page 343",
          "text": "Companies, by often imposing oversevere tasks on their men, oblige them to use every subterfuge in order to meet the imjust exigencies of their employers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1822, Francis Charles Laird, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, page 125",
          "text": "From her girlish days, Lady Jane was permitted, by her fond, yet oversevere parents, to mix with a few of the intimate friends of the family.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, Catherine Grace F . Gore, Heckington, Hurst and Blackett Publishers, page 129",
          "text": "\"I cannot help hoping that you are oversevere,\" said Miss Corbet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Francis Charles Laird, The Nation, J.H. Richards, pages 718–719",
          "text": "If the Senate amendments prevail the alien would find himself caught between two fires. He must register if he is an alien; he must pass an oversevere educational test if he wishes to become a citizen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, The Saturday Evening Post, G. Graham, page 22",
          "text": "This is not an unjust or oversevere commentary; let any reasonable reader inspect the publications of the vers-libre poets, the exhibitions of cubist sculpture and futurist painting, the productions of the disciples of the new art of the theater and decide that point for himself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Excessively severe."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Excessively",
          "excessively"
        ],
        [
          "severe",
          "severe"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Excessively severe."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəˈsɪˈvɪə/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəˈsɪˈvɪɹ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oversevere"
}

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      },
      "expansion": "over- + severe",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "over- + severe",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more oversevere",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most oversevere",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "oversevere (comparative more oversevere, superlative most oversevere)",
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  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "o‧ver‧sev‧ere"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1817, United States Government Printing Office, United States Congressional Serial Set, U.S. G.P.O., page 343",
          "text": "Companies, by often imposing oversevere tasks on their men, oblige them to use every subterfuge in order to meet the imjust exigencies of their employers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1822, Francis Charles Laird, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, page 125",
          "text": "From her girlish days, Lady Jane was permitted, by her fond, yet oversevere parents, to mix with a few of the intimate friends of the family.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, Catherine Grace F . Gore, Heckington, Hurst and Blackett Publishers, page 129",
          "text": "\"I cannot help hoping that you are oversevere,\" said Miss Corbet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1865, Francis Charles Laird, The Nation, J.H. Richards, pages 718–719",
          "text": "If the Senate amendments prevail the alien would find himself caught between two fires. He must register if he is an alien; he must pass an oversevere educational test if he wishes to become a citizen.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, The Saturday Evening Post, G. Graham, page 22",
          "text": "This is not an unjust or oversevere commentary; let any reasonable reader inspect the publications of the vers-libre poets, the exhibitions of cubist sculpture and futurist painting, the productions of the disciples of the new art of the theater and decide that point for himself.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Excessively severe."
      ],
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          "Excessively",
          "excessively"
        ],
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          "severe",
          "severe"
        ]
      ],
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        "(rare) Excessively severe."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəˈsɪˈvɪə/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌəʊvəˈsɪˈvɪɹ/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oversevere"
}