overscrupulous

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Most men would aver that he was overscrupulous, a man often rendered impotent by the severity of his own dedication.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, you must forgive me if I have seemed overscrupulous.

From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie

"We will rout these fancies of an overscrupulous generosity, my dear Lady Busshe."

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

I don't like to see you letting success and—and all the rest of it pass you by, when other men, not so overscrupulous, do succeed.

From Thankful's Inheritance by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

The king, who was accustomed to hear M. Colbert speak in not overscrupulous terms of M. Fouquet, allowed this remark to pass by unanswered, and merely listened.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre