Definitionadj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea
Last update: September 23, 2015
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These words show the futility of ascribing to Adam's account Columbus's knowledge of lands in the West, as many overzealous advocates of the Norse discoveries have done. [Please select]
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The overzealous trustee had exactly expressed his own wishes and anxieties. [Please select]
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Stealing backward glances as he ran, he was always ready to whirl around and down the overzealous pursuer that outran his fellows. [Please select]
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Sometimes the paintings which decorate a martyr's _cubiculum_ have been disfigured and their inscriptions effaced by an overzealous devotee. [Please select]
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Beecher's overzealous followers unwisely gave the impression that the Plymouth preacher resented sharing with another the pulpit fame which he alone had so long unquestioningly held. [Please select]
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The young man flung away the fence-rail, and, thrusting aside the overzealous among his admirers, he strode past me into the tavern, his anger still hot. [Please select]
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