Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being over-scrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
overscrupulous .
Etymologies
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overscrupulous + -ness
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Examples
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Psychasthenia is a neurosis or psychoneurosis similar to neurasthenia, characterized by an exhaustion of the nervous system, also by weakness of the will, overscrupulousness, fear, and a feeling of the
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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Hence it is folly and overscrupulousness to add restrictions of one's own accord except in critical instances, as indicated above.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907
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Upon revisal however, it was found that the inferences of the First Book had been materially injured by an overscrupulousness in that point.
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