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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary:

O·ver·flow·ing

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n.

An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness.

He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject.
Macaulay.
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adjective

    Full to the point of flowing over: awash, big, brimful, brimming. See big/small/amount, rich/poor.

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