overdare

English

Etymology

over- +‎ dare

Verb

overdare (third-person singular simple present overdares, present participle overdaring, simple past and past participle overdared)

1. (intransitive) To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [R. Robinson] for William Iones […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Meete you for this, proud ouerdaring peeres,
     Ere my sweete Gaueston shall part from me,
     This Ile shall fleete vpon the Ocean,
     And wander to the vnfrequented Inde.

   • 1912, William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, Scene III, in Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, p. 59,^[1]

     When one so great has spoken of love to one

     So little as I, though to deny him love,

     What can he but hold out beseeching hands,

     Then let them fall beside him, knowing how greatly

     They have overdared?

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References

• “overdare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• overdear, overread, read over