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1600 R. Chambers Palestina 10 He thoght that hereby hee might..enioy her companie, whome hee so entirely loued without giuing any cause of ielousie to her ouerdiligent keeper.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. ii. i. 30 The very reading of Treatises..of Melancholy has been apt to generate that Passion in the over-diligent and attentive Reader.

1956 Amer. Econ. Rev. 46 497 So far the courts have avoided both the rocks of ‘per se’ rigidity and the shoals of overdiligent inquiry.