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Definition of Overloved
1. overlove [v] - See also: overlove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overloved
Literary usage of Overloved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience by Richard Baxter (1825)
"This eager desire to be overloved by others, hath in it all these aggravations.
1. ... And he that would be overloved, would be overvalued. 2. ..."
2. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1826)
"... Not thy contempt, but anguish and regret For loss of life and pleasure overloved.
Or if thou covet death, as utmost end 1(80 ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1916)
"... refutes That excellence thought in thee ; and implies Not thy contempt, but
anguish and regret For loss of life and pleasure overloved. ..."
4. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1888)
"She then framed to herself an excuse for the conduct of her husband, " that he
did not work this wrong because he loved another, but because he overloved ..."
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