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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Overlines(s, n. [e.m.E. (1610) haughtiness, (1653) superficiality, f. Overly a.] Superficiality, casualness, inattentiveness. — 1650 Comm. Gen. Assembly III. 144.
That when people are at the preaching of the Word, besyds great carelesness, overlines, sleeping, wandring of the heart and inadvertencie to what is preached [etc.]
a1658 Durham Commandments 279.
Your superficialness and overliness in examining your selves
1698 Dunkeld Presb. II. 50.
That the … custom of censuring … turne not to formality, partiallity, and overliness, but that conscience be made therof

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