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

Women, then as now, ready to sacrifice themselves, are less ready to permit those dear to them to be overscrupulous.

From The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester by Wright Henderson, P. A. (Patrick Arkley)

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 timorous and overscrupulous women were the women who missed their footing, because, when they made a false step, they made it in fear and trembling, with the shadow of regret always dogging their heels.

From In the Wilderness by Hichens, Robert Smythe

But law, though merciless and probably not overscrupulous in the investigation of crime, did not satisfy the popular passions, which had been let loose by these wide and general accusations.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)