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Definition of Overvoted
1. overvote [v] - See also: overvote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overvoted
Literary usage of Overvoted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1894)
"... how four all along did act for the Papists, and three only for the Protestants,
by which they were overvoted, but at last one word (which was omitted in ..."
2. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"The writer of the Second Narrative jubilantly asserted that had Parliament
continued to sit, it might have "overvoted the Lovers of Freedom, ..."
3. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1861)
"... if being annexed to the Massachusetts, that they shall be overvoted, and made
to bear so much of the vast charge that the Massachusetts have heretofore ..."
4. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: Together with an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1849)
"... and in other papers likewise set up, it was declared, that the malignant party
had overvoted the good, and, if not prevented, there would be peace. ..."
5. Eikon Basilike, Or, The King's Book: Or, The King's Book by Eikón Basilikē, Charles I, John Gauden (1907)
"Nor was this intolerable oppression My case alone, (though chiefly Mine) For the
Lords and Commons might be content to be overvoted by the major part of ..."
6. The Political and Commercial Works of that Celebrated Writer Charles D by Charles Davenant (1771)
"If fome among them, who have knowledge and experience in this revenue, have
been (as is alledged) all along overvoted, and driven into wrong ..."
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