Meaning of overdare | Babel Free

Definitions

To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.

intransitive

Examples

“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, 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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