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The word "overleap" has appeared in literature with a dual sense of physical and metaphorical transcendence. In Benito Pérez Galdós’s Doña Perfecta [1], for instance, it carries the straightforward meaning of "passing over" or saving, implying a direct traversal of bounds. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, on the other hand, employs the term in a more imaginative and dynamic fashion in Biographia Literaria [2], using it to evoke the idea of surmounting an obstacle in one sweeping leap that transcends conventional limits. Together, these examples illustrate the flexibility of "overleap" in literary usage, where it simultaneously denotes both a literal crossing and a symbolic act of overcoming barriers.
  1. salvar t save; pass over, overleap.
    — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
  2. But this obstacle too let us imagine ourselves to have surmounted, and "at one bound high overleap all bound."
    — from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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