overplus
Example Sentences
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Let Nature but interpose a sheet of water or a bit of wood, and the merriest joy-bells that ever rang are infused with that melancholy which is the overplus of rapture.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
What kind of excess do overplus and superabundance denote? lavishness and profusion?
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
“You may judge, my lord; the poor people pay with the overplus of the harvest; this year there has been no overplus; on the contrary, every one is behind in point even of necessities.”
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni
Complete expresses not excess or overplus, and yet not mere sufficiency, but harmony, proportion, fitness to a design, or ideal.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
The 427 overplus, which is not very considerable, goes to the profit of the city.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various
