oversolicitous

comparative more oversolicitous · superlative most oversolicitous

1. Excessively solicitous.

   He that is overſolicitous to return a Benefit, thinks the other ſo likewiſe to receive it.

   1693, Seneca the Younger, chapter XVI, in Roger L'Estrange, transl., Morals, translation of original in Classical Latin, page 88

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   The son of a United States senator (Case 91) was 30 years of age when seen. His condition had been very serious for a long time. He was cured in less than two years by a gradual education which freed him from extreme dependence upon oversolicitous parents.

   1917, Maximilian P. E. Groszmann, “Malady of Scrupulosity”, in The Exceptional Child, page 673

   Our waiter could have been performing as the model for what a waiter should be. Several of his tables were filled and he was busy, but kept his eye on us (never hovering, never oversolicitous) and took care of things with a degree of style that I suspect was inborn rather than cultivated.

   1974 February 8, John Canaday, “An Armenian Restaurant With a Nonstrolling Musician”, in The New York Times, page 37