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Definition of Oversoon
1. adv. Too soon.
Definition of Oversoon
1. Adverb. Too soon; prematurely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oversoon
1. too soon [adv] - See also: soon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversoon
Literary usage of Oversoon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"If the blossom be set, and the disposition be fixed oversoon, what have we for
fruit but ... oversoon ..."
2. Utopia: And History of King Richard III by Thomas More (1834)
"Nor none of us, I believe, is so unwise, oversoon to trust a new friend made of
an old foe, or to think that an hourly kindness, suddenly contract in one ..."
3. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1893)
"... seemed to have made an insurance and got £1oo with the least trouble and danger
in the whole world. This troubles me to think I should be so oversoon. ..."
4. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"... and endeth oversoon, and that they are there upon incontinently made free of
the said city; ... for remedy, stay, and reformation whereof it is ordained ..."
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