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ˈover-deˈsire [over- 29 d.] Excessive desire.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 54 Carried and transported with an over-desire and thirstinesse after fame. 1795Jemima I. 196 By her over desire to spare my wife's fatigue. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. viii. 413 note, It seems..to have been this over-desire to prove his theory orthodox, which incensed the church against it. |