Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an over-anxious manner; with excessive solicitude.
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Examples
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At other times, shunning over-anxiously this very deception, I err in too great strictness; and sometimes to that degree, as to wish the whole melody of sweet music which is used to Davids Psalter, banished from my ears, and the Churchs too; and that mode seems to me safer, which I remember to have been often told me of Athanasius.
The Tenth Book 1909
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At other times, shunning over-anxiously this very deception, I err in too great strictness; and sometimes to that degree, as to wish the whole melody of sweet music which is used to David’s
The Confessions 1999
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