Meanings of overrating in English

Really, Mr Ralli, I fear you are greatly overrating your own sagacity.

I have been suffering indisposition which was aggravated in reality by overrating its importance.

Let us duly appreciate, but be cautious of overrating, the advantage of religious education.

There was no danger of his overrating his own poetry.

Don't you think, perhaps, that some of the fault lies with you for overrating women?

If we begin by overrating the being we love, we shall end by treating it with wholesale injustice.

Maybe I've been overrating him.

There is no danger of our overrating or overstating the important part which we are now acting in human affairs.

Your kind father, overrating the paltry service I rendered you, would have consented to submit my fate to your decision.

The princes, however, in the view of the shrewd old lady, had made the mistake of greatly overrating their own importance.

I replied, that most of the critics had attacked me for overrating Hutton, and that Playfair understood him as I did.

Ride out with me, King Ranald, for we must count these Danes, and see that we are not overrating their number.

I think you are much above being a vain coxcomb, overrating your own merit, and insulting others with the superabundance of it.

Unfortunately he had acquired a position by his negative virtues which was above his natural level, and misled him into overrating his capabilities.

It is proper, however, to remark that Miss Aikin has committed the error, very pardonable in a lady, of overrating Addison's classical attainments.

The Londoners soon found out their advantage, and, overrating it, steered into their opponents water prematurely, in spite of a warning voice from the bank.