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/oʊvˈərt/ /ˈoʊvərt/ Listen

adjective

overt adj.

Open to view; public; apparent; manifest. Opposite of hidden. "Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise."

(Law) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason. "No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." Note: In criminal law, an overt act is an open act done in pursuance and manifestation of a criminal design; the mere design or intent not being punishable without such act. In English law, market overt is an open market; a pound overt is an open, uncovered pound.

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"Overt" Quotes from Famous Books

... (Not that anything overt had occurred, or been articulately said, between them last Sunday afternoon. But they had been alone together, and had each witnessed strange and disturbing matters in the eyes ...

— The Old Wives' Tale • Arnold Bennett

... to make up a sufficient total of American women drowned, and on the next day the President declared that the long-awaited "overt act" had been committed. He asked Congress to declare that peace with Germany was ended. Her ambassador was sent home and ...

— We Can't Have Everything • Rupert Hughes

... room, Mr. Sawyer, sorrowful but unresentful still, was making up his mind that his efforts had been all in vain. 'I must give it up,' he said. 'And both for myself and the boys the sooner the better, before there is any overt disrespect which would have to be noticed. It is no use fighting on, I have not the knack of it. The boys will never like me, and I may do harm where I would wish to do good. I must try ...

— Grandmother Dear - A Book for Boys and Girls • Mrs. Molesworth

... mercenary interest that bound the army to the state, and there was, probably, but one class of feelings that would have been strong enough to have broken these ties,—those, namely, of religious sympathy or prejudice. The overt ground of the general mutiny was offence to caste feelings, given by the introduction into the army of certain cartridges said to have been prepared with hog's lard and cow's fat. The men must bite off the ends of these ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857 • Various

... these mute signs of something brewing in the atmosphere had been rather noticeable than noticed, without any positive overt act of tyranny on the one hand or rebellion on the other. But on the very Saturday night in which Dr. Riccabocca was installed in the four-posted bed in the chintz chamber, the threatened revolution commenced. In the dead of that night personal outrage was committed on the stocks. ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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