overmeasure

[ oh-ver-mezh-er ]

noun

1. an excessive or surplus measure or amount:

   an overmeasure of exuberance.

Word History and Origins

Origin of overmeasure¹

First recorded in 1575–85; over- + measure

Example Sentences

Overmeasure, ō′vėr-mezh-ūr, n. something given over the due measure.—v.t. to measure too largely.

From Project Gutenberg

In the meantime, take a look at your resolutions and ask yourself this:  have you been conditioned to overplan and overmeasure, and are you planning and measuring the right things?

From Forbes

Her heavy looks were often turned toward the hermitage-mountain; at evening she herself visited it, and brought to the sleeper the last offering which friendship has then to give, in overmeasure.

From Project Gutenberg

Victor could say nothing, for tearful rapture, except, "Have not then my good Agatha and the blind one yet arrived?"–And both stood–behind him; and he concealed the overmeasure of his bliss under the caressings of the sister and the friend; his capacious cup of sorrow was truly poured full of tears of joy.

From Project Gutenberg

What ails us to fear overmeasure, To praise thee with timorous breath, O mistress and mother of pleasure, The one thing as certain as death?

From Project Gutenberg