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Overfond

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O´ver`fond´
a.1.Fond to excess.
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Adj.1.overfond - excessively fond
loving - feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances"
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Tarzan had learned enough about Arab character since he had been in Algeria to know that this was no real motive, for the Arab is never overfond of the companionship of strangers, and especially of French soldiers.
The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Well, Miss Lyddy, I reckon, believed what he told her, and she's not overfond o' parting with the money herself--she's not a bad woman at bottom, but she's been brought up under his thumb; so she began fidgeting with her purse, and turned as red as her ribbon.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
Though never overfond of my late daughter, I had a proper pride about her.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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