over-zealous
See also: overzealous
English
editAdjective
editover-zealous (comparative more over-zealous, superlative most over-zealous)
- Alternative spelling of overzealous
- 1925, Thomas R. Marshall, Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall[1], Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:
- 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.