0 present participle of overrate
1 to have too good an opinion of something:
Be careful not to overrate your competitors.
In this historical framework, the overrating of orthography in teaching probably triggered this tendency to adapt oral language to the forms of the written language, especially in careful speech.
I think, therefore, that there is a certain danger of overrating the setback that has taken place.
That provision was concerned not with unreasonable expenditure but with overrating.
Maybe this is overrating it a little.
Oedipus, for example, consists of the overrating of blood relations and the underrating of blood relations, the autochthonous origin of humans and the denial of their autochthonous origin.