Definition of Overrash

1. too rash [adj] - See also: rash

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overrash

overquantify
overquantifying
overquell
overquelled
overquick
overquietness
overraced
overrack
overracks
overrake
overraked
overrakes
overraking
overran
overrank
overrash (current term)
overrate
overrated
overratedness
overrates
overrating
overreached
overreacher
overreachers
overreaches
overreaching
overreachingly
overreact
overreacted

Literary usage of Overrash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1907)
"... carried with overrash wilfulness, for so you may wound the King through the sides of a private person ; and this I command to your special care, ..."

2. Leading American Novelists by John Erskine (1910)
"Perhaps it would be overrash to suggest any person in it as hero or heroine. It is this grave failure in plot that has doubtless caused Dred to be generally ..."

3. The Kinds of Poetry: And Other Essays by John Erskine (1920)
"II Yet it is not overrash to say that all the great poets have had this kind of scholarship; they have drawn on old material, which their audience knew well ..."

4. The Kinds of Poetry: & Other Essays by John Erskine (1920)
"II Yet it is not overrash to say that all the great poets have had this kind of scholarship; they have drawn on old material, which their audience knew well ..."

5. American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson by Horace Elisha Scudder (1879)
"... Beneath our drift of puritanic snow, The marvel sensitive and fine 385 Of sanguinaria overrash to blow And warm its shyness in an air benign; ..."

6. Life of Frederick Marryat by David. Hannay, John Parker Anderson (1889)
"By preference he lived in good houses, in good neighbourhoods, and it is not overrash or uncharitable to guess that his income was not always adequate to ..."

7. American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson by Horace Elisha Scudder (1879)
"... Beneath our drift of puritanic snow, The marvel sensitive and fine 385 Of sanguinaria overrash to blow And warm its shyness in an air benign; ..."

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