excess
/ˈɛksɛs/ adjective C2- More than is normal, necessary or specified.
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“There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.” The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat shedding the grain from excess of ripeness.
“Yes, but it may be pushed to excess.
“What are you thinking of?” asked the abbé smilingly, imputing the deep abstraction in which his visitor was plunged to the excess of his awe and wonder.
“Sir,” replied Caderousse, “they had made me drink to such an excess that I nearly lost all perception.
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