overforward

Adjective

1. Excessively forward.
   • And tho' a Man may have been often mis-us'd upon this account, there are still some People so modest, and will esteem so well of a kind Offer, that 'twill be frequently a Man's Duty to run the Hazard of his Service...
   • And, in like manner, I have never yielded to those who set themselves up rashly to sit in judgment, as for the most part overforward to determine the nature. of the malady while ignorant of its root. - 1858, Letters of...
   • He is an effective debater in Conference deliberations , when he chooses to take a part, which, however, he is not overforward to do. - 1860, John Carroll, Past and Present, Or, A Description of Persons and Events, page...

   1. (of a person) Too bold; too quick to act and/or too emphatic of expression.

   2. (of an emotion, attitude, or trait) Arrived at too quickly or expressed too openly.

      • Nay, till my second Thoughts check'd the overforward Impetuosity of my first, I was about to add, Since God resents an infinite satisfaction in the Accomplishment of his own Will, your Making over your whole Will to...
      • I do not deny that some have displayed an overforward hostility to that system. - 1844, Richard Mant, A Churchman's Apology, page 4:
      • But the truth is, I imagined you would take it merely as an excuse, had I told you I had the instrument under such conditions; and I likewise simply thought I could obtain leave to lend it; which failing on the trial, I...

   3. (of an action, occurrence, or development) Premature.

      • I the rather say this to you, as you seem, in your last, to condemn ( which I am much pleased with ) the hasty and overforward prescriptions of beginners. - 1831, Robert Hawker, Works - Volume 1, page 7:
      • This was not a childish or an overforward choice in him , but doubtless was from a serious consideration , as seeing him who is invisible ; for we are expressly told , that ' When he was full forty years old, it came...
      • A character rare at all times and in all places; most rare in such a station as he seemed destined thus early to occupy; and promising fruites proportionable rare if it might only escape the dangers incident to an...

   4. Incautious.

      • What ? do the Bishops fit to govern the Church ? undoubtedly He did not , nor do any of them : and had not his fear pull'd him by the sleeve , and given a check to his overforward Tongue, no doubt but he would have...
      • We had a glorious day together in his mother's garden; never before did such magnificent volcanoes break forth out of mole-hills, or were plots of daisies and violets so ruthlessly scorcehed and torn by the explosion of...
      • As, therefore, we are wont to pull off some of the too-frequent blossoms that the rest may thrive; so it is good wisdom to moderate the early excess of the parts or progress of overforward childhood . - 2022, Philip...