over-zealous

comparative more over-zealous · superlative most over-zealous

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of overzealous.

   By the 11th, however, feeling between the rival companies had penetrated down to the "lower ranks," for on that day some over-zealous officials of the Midland caused the Lancashire & Yorkshire metals to be pulled up at Methley Junction.

   1957 April 28, K. Field and J. P. Wilson, “The Junctions at Methley”, in Railway Magazine, page 280

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   Long afterward I learned that I was shadowed for six months by Secret Service men in the fear that I might be assaulted by some over-zealous union man. Of this I was not aware at the time, or I should have taken steps to have prevented it.

   1925, Thomas R. Marshall, Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall, Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 201