overexcessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌəʊvəɪkˈsɛsɪv/
Forms: form: more overexcessive
form: most overexcessive
Etymology: From over- + excessive.
Senses: examples: text: This program helps meet a deep-seated rural need. A rural survey reveals among the chief causes of the exodus of its young people: (a) Anti-social conditions, (b) Overexcessive hours.
ref: 1923, Herbert Spenser Minnich, The Missionary Visitor, Brethren Publishing House, page 266:
text: Are honest lawyers so rare in Central Illinois in Lincoln’s time? No; what all attestators are really trying to state is, that Lincoln is abnormally honest; his honesty is so overexcessive that he legally “Jeans over backward.”
ref: 1933, Leon Pierce Clark, Lincoln: A Psycho-Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 176:
text: One may save money and not be thrifty. We need to ask ourselves, '‘What do our savings represent T’ If saving means doing without all that we need and long for, if it involves stinginess, if it means opportunities unrealized, if it means an overexcessive expenditure of energy, strength, or time, this is not true thrift. On the other hand, true thrift and good money management involve the wise division of the income ; the spending of money, time, and energy for desirable things ; the intelligent use of materials after they have been purchased ; the elimination of waste and extravagance ; and the saving of money to provide for future emergencies.
ref: 1939, Ada Kennedy, Consumer Economics, The Manual Arts Press, page 47:
text: Being familiar with the problems of grape growers and the wine industry it Is my firm belief that if enacted as currently proposed this overexcessive tax recommendation would cause irreparable harm to befall not only those immediately connected with the industry, but would adversely affect areas in which grapes are grown and would be particularly injurious to the agricultural economy as a whole.
ref: 1951, United States Congress, Congressional Record, Congress, page 1456:
text: Besides, a sled had to be built, a sled strong enough to carry fourteen cylinders of oxygen. These, together with the two tanks Ted and Forbes would be carrying on their backs when they left, would insure enough for the trip to the dump—providing there was no overexcessive delay.
ref: 1953, Richard Marsten, Rocket to Luna, Winston, page 140:
text: Fever is simply indication of trouble and is a basic way of purification and of elimination. It is an indicator and not a disease in itself. Ponder on this, and apply it on all planes, for physical plane fever has its astral and mental counterparts. It is overexcessive energy which burns up and, in burning, relieves and cures (either through the subjugation of the germ or group of energies which caused it or by the releasing power of death). Where possible, and when the physical body is strong enough to stand the strain, it is well to let the fever have its way for a time, for it is nature’s cure of certain undesirable conditions. Fevers not only give warning of the presence of that which causes distress, but have in themselves definite therapeutic value. But careful watching and balancing will be required— balancing against the energies of the body. Whilst the fever is rampant, the body is rendered relatively futile, and its normal activities are affected. As to the cure and the correct treatment of fevers, much is known by the orthodox medical profession, and this knowledge will suffice until such time as the causes of fevers are better understood and physicians can work with the cause and not with the effect.
ref: 1953, Alice Bailey, Esoteric Healing, Lucis Press Limited, pages 313-314:
text: This did not seem overexcessive, when one considered that there were districts where the land taxes had been collected sixty years ahead.
ref: 1963, John Phillips Marquand, Ming Yellow, Pyramid Books, page 107:
text: She was a small woman. Her bearing was regal. Her face had the cast of an oriental warrior. The cruel set of her mouth gave a ferocity and a distinction to her expression. Her skin had a waxy texture and it was unlined. She had obviously copied the Duchess and had a face-lift. But unlike Wallis Windsor, who had always taken a perfectionist approach to her appearance, Maitre Blum had been overexcessive in her use of cosmetic surgery. She’d allowed, or forced, her surgeons to make everything look far too tight.
ref: 1995, Caroline Blackwood, The Last of the Duchess, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, pages 48-49:
text: I told them to wait for me a moment downstairs. I made sure I had Saverio’s letter in my bag and my mother’s charm on my breast. Out of a probably overexcessive impulse, I left a rose in the empty house for Saverio, just in case, despite his letter, he ever passed by there. I went out, pulled the door shut, and went down. The dark outline of the duomo was just visible as it blocked one end of Cocomero Street. The academy opposite was closed.
ref: 1998-2003, Rhea Galanaki, Eleni, or, Nobody, Northwestern University Press, page 77:
glosses: Particularly excessive; far too much in amount or quantity.