overaffect
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "if those that overaffect antiquity will follow the square thereof, their bishops must be elected by the hands of the whole church"
- "We forfeit many favours, by overaffecting them."
- "And take thou heed of over-affecting, overvaluing the gifts of any man so, as that thou take the voice of an Angell, for the voyce of the Archangell, any thing that that man saies, for the word of God."
Etymology
From over- + affect.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over