ˈover-ˈcare, n.
[over- 29 d.]
Too much care, undue or excessive care.
| 1599 Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 206 The world having extinguished the care of the publike good, by an over-care of their private. 1693 Dryden tr. Persius' Satires ii. 81 The very over⁓care, And nauseous pomp, wou'd hinder half the Pray'r. 1751 Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless III. 7 It was only his over-care to please her. 1833 C. Lamb Last Essays 103 Sunday itself—that unfortunate failure of a holyday..with my sense of its fugitiveness, and over-care to get the greatest quantity of pleasure out of it—is melted down into a week day. 1937 V. McNabb God's Way of Mercy xii. 103 There is no over-care about tomorrow; just a love of God. |