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Definition of Oversubtle
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversubtle
Literary usage of Oversubtle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"It is hard to realize the complexity of processes involved in the term growth,
and yet there is a point beyond which oversubtle methods of weighing and even ..."
2. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero (1909)
"All these critics, particularly R., seem to me oversubtle. Why should it be
impossible that the Helvetii had that evening forgotten to occupy the mountain ? ..."
3. The Greatness and Decline of Rome by Guglielmo Ferrero (1908)
"All these critics, particularly R., seem to me oversubtle. Why should it be
impossible that the Helvetii had that evening forgotten to occupy the mountain ? ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"changes have not generally been regarded as requiring a construction different
from that of the English prototype, the distinction is not only oversubtle ..."
5. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle of St. James by James Hardy Ropes (1916)
"Hört's interesting interpretation is probably oversubtle : "The common interpretation
of 'goings' as a mere trope for 'doings' seems too weak here. ..."
6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Hill v. Hooper, 1 Gray, 131; Freeman v. t'osf, 145 Mass. 361. It appears to us
that this difficulty cannot be answered, except by attributing im oversubtle ..."
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