overfearful

The dark Sidhe had complained that Pasgen, being overfearful of Oberon, had made the Unseleighe Court dull as ditch-water and sour with rules.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

They esteem indeed Theognis to have been a man altogether of a base and abject spirit, for saying, as one overfearful in regard to poverty, which is an indifferent thing: —

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

The consequences might well be serious if Marsh's money were used; but, as the days slipped past and nothing occurred, he decided that he had been overfearful on this score, or else that the manager of the Packers 'Trust had limits beyond which he would not push his persecution.

The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913