Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an overflowing manner; exuberantly; in great abundance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In great abundance; exuberantly.
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- adverb So as to
overflow ; veryexcessively orgenerously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were so beautifully typeset, and their tone was just captivating — alternately casual and buffer-overflowingly technical.
Copy What You Like 2006
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Some of the impressions you mention are of an overflowingly large family, religious pictures on the walls, and saying the rosary together on holy days.
The Loyal Catholic 2002
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Some of the impressions you mention are of an overflowingly large family, religious pictures on the walls, and saying the rosary together on holy days.
The Loyal Catholic 2002
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In that charmed circle he was as overflowingly happy as if he had been admitted to the company of the gods.
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Street, were not quite as overflowingly high as when she had started out, they were good enough to make her smile to herself and to every one she met during the rest of the day, and to hum gay little tunes when no one was near, and altogether to feel very happy and pleased and possessed by the conviction that something delightful was about to happen.
The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce
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Nor has any people known to history shown a greater reverence and love for their Christian teachers, or filled the measure of a grateful return more overflowingly.
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In that charmed circle he was as overflowingly happy as if he had been admitted to the company of the gods.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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In that charmed circle he was as overflowingly happy as if he had been admitted to the company of the gods.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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For Love itself, the benefactor of things that be, pre-existing overflowingly in the Good, did not permit itself to remain unproductive in itself, but moved itself to creation [36], as befits the overflow which is generative of all.
Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897
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Never before had Georgina seen her so radiant, so excited, so overflowingly happy that she gave vent to her feelings as a little schoolgirl might have done.
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