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Definition of Overkeen
1. too keen [adj] - See also: keen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overkeen
Literary usage of Overkeen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1906)
"Let us then be guided, neither by the overkeen enthusiasm of the partisan, nor
by the reactionary criticism of less emotional critics. ..."
2. Practicable Socialism by Barnett, Canon Barnett, Samuel Augustus Barnett, Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett (1915)
"Is it not likely to narrow the heart of the good-doer and make him overkeen about
his own plan ? Will not the charity of a stranger, although it be designed ..."
3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"If, for instance, the bargain in this instance was overkeen and unjust, or if
the party against whom specific performance was sought was laboring under some ..."
4. The Psychology of Nationality and Internationalism by Walter Bowers Pillsbury (1919)
"On the whole this prevents the actual harm, but in the highly organized civilization
with its overkeen imagination and openness to suggestion it may cause ..."
5. Materia Medica: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing for by Walter Arthur Bastedo (1918)
"... when the normal tendency to sleep seems to be absent, or when the perceptive
faculties are overkeen so that waking is easy, as in fevers, neurasthenia, ..."
6. Materia Medica: Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing for by Walter Arthur Bastedo (1918)
"... when the normal tendency to sleep seems to be absent, or when the perceptive
faculties are overkeen so that waking is easy, as in fevers, neurasthenia, ..."
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