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Definition of Overweens
1. overween [v] - See also: overween
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overweens
Literary usage of Overweens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dante and His Circle: With the Italian Poets Preceding Him (1100-1200-1300 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Dante Alighieri (1905)
"... Wherein at times it overweens to waste: Which yet of selfish joy or foul intent
Desire to make your own, But a wise woman, fair in purity; ..."
2. English Prose (1137-1890) by John Matthews Manly (1909)
"... and the most beautiful men of the most imperfect conditions; for Nature, having
care to polish the body so far, overweens herself in her excellency, ..."
3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1853)
"Pride excluded the vulgar from the schools of ancient philosophy ; and it is
painfully evident that the same feeling has kept many a one who overweens, ..."
4. The Early Italian Poets from Ciullo D'Alcamo to Dante Alighieri (1100-1200 by Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Chiswick Press (1861)
"... attire Wherein at times it overweens to waste: Which yet of selfish joy or
foul intent Doth hide the deep desire, And is, of heavy surety, double-faced ..."
5. Nature in a City Yard: Some Rambling Dissertations Thereupon by Charles Montgomery Skinner (1897)
"There is a man who struggled for years to get into the set that calls itself
society and strangely overweens itself because Jenkins hangs on its skirts and ..."
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