"over-anxious" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1873, Emile Gaboriau, translated by Fred[erick] Williams and George A[lexander] O[tis] Ernst, The Widow Lerouge. A Novel., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], page 88, column 1",
          "text": "What over-anxious care for details!",
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          "ref": "1978, Dan Olweus, “Personality factors and aggression: With special reference to violence within the peer group”, in Willard W. Hartup, Jan de Wit, editors, Origins of Aggression, Mouton Publishers, page 267",
          "text": "In the case of the whippingboys, however, the closeness of the relationship was often given a somewhat negative interpretation by the teachers: The parents were over-anxious, ‘cottoned’ the boy, were overprotective.",
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          "ref": "1995, T. M. Perry, Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs, London, Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, page 64",
          "text": "It is so easy for over-anxious singers to squeak, to mispitch a note, or to forget the words, that the teacher must display absolute faith in his or her pupils’ ability to produce something of value.",
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