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ˌoverˈweighting, vbl. n.
[-ing1.]
The act or fact of giving or having too much weight; overloading, overload (see also quot. 1940).
1905Westm. Gaz. 1 Sept. 2/3 The frightful overweighting of the postman because of the flood of pictorial postcards. 1914R. M. Jones Spiritual Reformers 16th & 17th Cent. xv. 289 Their gravest difficulty being an overweighting of learning which they sometimes failed to fuse with their spiritual vision. 1940J. R. R. Tolkien in Clark Hall & Wrenn Beowulf & Finnesburg Fragment p. xxxi, Overweighting and extension..are a means of including certain common but slightly excessive patterns in the metre; also of adding weight to the line where required, and of packing much significant word-material into a small space... It consists in replacing the dip by a long (subordinate) stress. |