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Overcurious
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O´ver`cu´ri`ous
a.1.Too curious.
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Adj.1.overcurious - showing excessive curiosity
curious - eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
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There is a good example of such overcuriosity in Stephen Orgel's argument that the marriage is Prospero's plan (never mentioned, of course) "to prevent the succession of his brother" Antonio to the ducal throne after his own death ("Prospero's Wife," Representing the English Renaissance, ed.
My magic can lick your magic by Levin, Richard / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
 
 
 
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