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Definition of Overenthusiasm
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overenthusiasm
Literary usage of Overenthusiasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the 1st-22d Annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International (1911)
"DANGER IN overenthusiasm FOR PEACE REMARKS* OF DR. HARRY A. GARFIELD, PRESIDENT
OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE It is hardly fitting that a novice still serving his ..."
2. Personality in Business: How to Give Personality to Business--personalities (1917)
"It may be well here to speak a word of caution about overenthusiasm, as an example
of one of the valuable lessons I learned directly from a big business ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"... the student a sound and commonsense view of the subjects of heredity and eugenics.
The danger of an unwarranted overenthusiasm in these directions must ..."
4. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"Sympathetic readers will see our predicament and consider our worst fault to be
the common lot of biographers, an overenthusiasm for their subject. ..."
5. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"Sympathetic readers will see our predicament and consider our worst fault to be
the common lot of biographers, an overenthusiasm for their subject. ..."
6. Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors by Lindsay Swift (1900)
"... had an overenthusiasm and lack of definiteness well calculated to wreck any
project dependent on him alone to shape its course. He preached truths which ..."
7. The Panama Canal by Frederic Jennings Haskin (1913)
"... in his last days he realized little of the immeasurable injustice his misplaced
zeal and overenthusiasm had wrought against the people of France. ..."
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