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Definition of Overzealousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overzealousness
Literary usage of Overzealousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Affairs in the Philippine Islands by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on the Philippines, Committee on the Philippines, United States, Senate, Congress, United States Congress. Senate (1902)
"1 am forced to the opini"0 that the original arrest of these men was absolutely
unwarranted. ;• - s\b\y due to mal interpretation and overzealousness on the ..."
2. Society's Misfits by Madeleine Zabriskie Doty (1916)
"The president wrote: Harriet's trouble is overzealousness. She is so thoroughly
in earnest that ... overzealousness will hinder as much aa lack of interest. ..."
3. Affray at Brownsville, Tex by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs (1907)
"A. I gave that case, sir, to show the overzealousness of the police force in
trying to make arrests, to make arrests whenever they could, ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1903)
"H. AUGUSTUS WILSON said that the errors of overzealousness are in some cases
responsible for deformities. Given a case with any of the tubercular joint ..."
5. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"One attack came on after going in swimming while the boy was in the country.
The mother, in her overzealousness to make up for lost time and to fatten ..."
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