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Etymology edit

overprotective +‎ -ly

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overprotectively (comparative more overprotectively, superlative most overprotectively)

  1. In an overprotective way.
    • 2007 January 21, Lorraine Adams, “Armenian in Istanbul”, in New York Times[1]:
      Shafak sketches these Armenians flatly and superficially, as uniformly and fiercely anti-Turk — and as overprotectively fretful about beautiful and bookish Armanoush.

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