ˈover-speech
[over- 29 b.]
Loquacity; indiscretion.
| 1865 Swinburne Atalanta 1200 Keep ye on earth Your lips from over-speech. 1920 E. Pound Umbra 115 Arnaut loves, and ne'er will fret Love with o'er-speech. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros iv. 48 ‘Keep thou thy lips from overspeech,’ said the King. ‘These be mysteries whereon but to think may snatch thee into peril.’ |