| 单词 | over-officiousness | 
| 释义 | over-officiousnessn.  The quality of being over-officious; (also occasionally) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > 			[noun]		 > being a busybody or officiousness businessa1466 busyty?1530 stickling1589 polypragmony1602 polypragmosyne1607 over-officiousnessa1610 officiousness1613 pragmaticalness1626 busybodyness1642 busybodying1824 busybodyism1828 pantopragmatics1860 superserviceableness1869 polypragmatism1890 a1610    J. Healey tr.  Theophrastus Characters 		(1636)	 51  				Impertinent dilligence, or over-officiousnesse. 1655    T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit.  ii. 103  				The over-Officiousnesse of a pragmaticall Abbot. 1695    J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 70  				To fortify him in an Errour by an Over-officiousness. 1854    A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 177  				A person who, by over-officiousness, retards instead of assists. 1886    F. F. Cooper Hard Times  iii. vi. 21  				I hate and detest over officiousness. 1939    Times 28 Sept. 6/2  				Its efforts..are being obstructed by the over-officiousness of local authorities. 1995    BNC 		(BNC)	  				By two minutes to three the match had already been condemned to a dull spectacle, mined by zealous over-officiousness and amazing decisions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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