diff --git a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
index 4aa18768d..c7c4f6b50 100644
--- a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
+++ b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ control specific occasions when output is generated. This list may contain:
 The tokens "affected", "new-id", "new-uuid", "project", "override" and "recur"
 imply "footnote".
 
-The tokens "default" and "override" imply "header".
+The token "default" implies "header".
 
 Note that the "1" setting is equivalent to all the tokens being specified,
 and the "nothing" setting is equivalent to none of the tokens being specified.
diff --git a/src/Context.cpp b/src/Context.cpp
index fc2eea81e..e2ee9bad3 100644
--- a/src/Context.cpp
+++ b/src/Context.cpp
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ bool Context::verbose (const std::string& token)
     // Some flags imply "header" verbosity being active.  Make it so.
     if (! verbosity.count ("header"))
     {
-      for (auto flag : {"default", "override"})
+      for (auto flag : {"default"})
       {
         if (verbosity.count (flag))
         {