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(transitive) to prove excessively or beyond what is asked or required.
I think many of his devices are, in fact, quite arbitrary; that he betrays a Germanic ponderousness at times and a tendency to overprove what is quite clear in the first place.
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Overprove means (transitive) to prove excessively or beyond what is asked or required.
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I think many of his devices are, in fact, quite arbitrary; that he betrays a Germanic ponderousness at times and a tendency to overprove what is quite clear in the first place.
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