over-zealous

See also: overzealous

English

Adjective

over-zealous (comparative more over-zealous, superlative most over-zealous)

  1. 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.
    • 1957 April, K. Field and J. P. Wilson, “The Junctions at Methley”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:
      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.
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