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ˈover-ˈsharp, a. [over- 28.] Too sharp, excessively sharp. Hence ˈover-ˈsharpness.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. Theatr. Chem. Brit. (1652) 73 Abhominable sower, Over-sharpe, too bitter. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589) 503, I would not that fathers should be over-sharpe and hard to their children. 1795Seward Anecdotes III. 38 They..were not over-sharp in discovering the intrigues and artifices. 1858Bagehot Coll. Works (1965) II. 84 ‘Over-sharpness’ in the student is the most unpromising symptom of the logical jurist. 1896T. L. De Vinne in Moxon's Mech. Exerc., Printing 404 The superior beauty of over-sharp hair-lines. 1955J. L. Austin How to do Things with Words. (1962) vii. 90 Alice-in-Wonderland over-sharpness. 1970Nature 19 Dec. 1218/1 The quality of suprathreshold vision in the fovea results from a balance between optical unsharpness..and neural ‘oversharpness’ (lateral inhibition). |