| 单词 |
over-fine |
| 释义 |
ˈover-ˈfine, a. [over- 28.] Too fine; superfine; over-refined.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 243 Pure flowre for ouerfine breade. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iv. xx. (1713) 339 This fetch of yours is over-fine and witty. 1707Norris Treat. Humility vi. 273 Aiming at hard words, or an over⁓fine pronunciation of such as are common. 1862Athenæum 8 Nov. 588 The phrases ‘Our Feathered Families’, and ‘Birds of Song’ are, we submit, affected and over-fine. Hence ˈover-ˈfineness.
1859Tennyson Vivien 645 (794) In the mouths of base interpreters, From over-fineness not intelligible..Is thy white blamelessness accounted blame! |

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