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/əʊvəˈsaŋɡwɪn/ · adjective
Too sanguine; overconfident, too disposed to hopes of success..
So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine.
In that respect the popular clamor for "smashing" the rebels was based on sound if oversanguine instinct.
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Oversanguine means Too sanguine; overconfident, too disposed to hopes of success..
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So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine.
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