Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Too soon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Too soon.
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- adverb Too
soon ;prematurely .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And cut that short which threatens thee with sore risk oversoon:
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Alan did not mean to be oversoon in going back to Four Winds, but three days later a book came to him which Captain Anthony had expressed a wish to see.
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I counsel thee, from soul cast out the wish that dwells therein, * And cut that short which threatens thee with sore risk oversoon:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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This troubles me to think I should be so oversoon.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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This troubles me to think I should be so oversoon.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 25: November/December 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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This troubles me to think I should be so oversoon.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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This troubles me to think I should be so oversoon.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Nov/Dec 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663
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Rinieri hearing himself called, praised God, taking it oversoon for granted that he was to be presently admitted, and coming up to the door, said,
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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A little more and you would have found your Lethe oversoon, old friend. "
In the Border Country Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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I told him twas barely decent in a old man to come so oversoon; but words be wind. "
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