overangelic

English

Etymology

over- +‎ angelic

Adjective

overangelic (comparative more overangelic, superlative most overangelic)

  1. Excessively angelic.
    • 1896, John Brown, Twenty-five Years a Parson in the Wild West, page 57:
      It would be years sometimes ere he saw the face of a female, and when he did, that face would not be overangelic. Anything of female attire in the camp was treasured as a jewel to be exhibited on special occasions.
    • 1902, Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains:
      They dreamed of no guile, but merely saw in him, whether frequenting camp or town, the same not overangelic comrade whom they valued and could not wholly understand.
    • 1954, Yale French Studies, numbers 14-21, page 29:
      Nothing of this erotic brutality remains in the “remake” in Eastman Color made in 1955 by Christian Jaque, with his wife, the overangelic Martine Carol.
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