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Definition of Overzeal
1. n. Excess of zeal.
Definition of Overzeal
1. Noun. Excessive zeal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overzeal
1. excess of zeal [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overzeal
Literary usage of Overzeal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Religion and Health by James Joseph Walsh (1920)
"One thing is perfectly sure : that if overzeal on the part of certain ...
Overzeal in medicine raised up a whole series of symptoms that had no existence ..."
2. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"Not because mistakes are ever desirable, but because overzeal to select material
and appliances which forbid a chance for mistakes to occur, ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"The patient attributes his present illness to overzeal on the part of his nurses
in restraining him. He was first seen in consultation on October 12th, ..."
4. A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897)
"Penn, to be sure, in his youthful overzeal, had claimed exclusive and universal
rights for Quakerism as " the alone good way of life and salvation," all ..."
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