Definition of Overscoring

1. overscore [v] - See also: overscore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overscoring

oversay
oversaying
oversays
overscale
overscaled
overscan
overscented
overschedule
overscheduled
overschedules
overscheduling
overschooled
overscore
overscored
overscores
overscoring (current term)
overscreen
overscreened
overscreening
overscreens
overscrupulosity
overscrupulous
overscrupulousness
oversea
oversearch
oversearched
oversearches
oversearching
overseas
overseas Chinese

Literary usage of Overscoring

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

1. The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell (1907)
"Inquire of the seas of every zone, inquire of the seaman overscoring the main—Behold"—he points at the ship whose blood-red sails are set and whose ghastly ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1915)
"In some measure this can be corrected by a system of weighted scores indicated by overscoring or underscoring the figure of the score as set down in the ..."

3. The Musical World (1882)
"Here, again, there is no sign of overscoring, and the only departure from simplicity is the occurrence twice of a sequence of chromatic sixths upon a pedal ..."

4. Grammar and Its Reasons, for Students and Teachers of the English Tongue by Mary Hall Leonard (1907)
"complished by means of underscoring, overscoring, parentheses, brackets, etc. The limit of usefulness for diagrams is very quickly reached. ..."

5. Grammar and Its Reasons: For Students and Teachers of the English Tongue by Mary Hall Leonard (1907)
"... complished by means of underscoring, overscoring, parentheses, brackets, etc. The limit of usefulness for diagrams is very quickly reached. ..."

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