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English
Adjective
over-anxious (comparative more over-anxious, superlative most over-anxious)
- Alternative form of overanxious.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Mansfield Park: , volume II, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, page 227:Fanny was confused, but it was the confusion of discontent; while Miss Crawford wondered she did not smile, and thought her over-anxious, or thought her odd, or thought her anything rather than insensible of pleasure in Henry’s attentions.
1873, Emile Gaboriau, translated by Fred Williams and George A O Ernst, The Widow Lerouge. A Novel., Boston, Mass.: James R Osgood and Company, , page 88, column 1:What over-anxious care for details!
1978, Dan Olweus, “Personality factors and aggression: With special reference to violence within the peer group”, in Willard W. Hartup, Jan de Wit, editors, Origins of Aggression, Mouton Publishers, →ISBN, page 267:In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers: The parents were over-anxious, ‘cottoned’ the boy, were overprotective.
1995, T. M. Perry, Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils’ ability to produce something of value.