"to a fault" meaning in English

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          "text": "I am trusting to a fault."
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          "text": "1710, Issac Norris, Friendly Advice to the Inhabitants of Pensilvania, Andrew Bradford (Philadelphia), p. 2,\nHe also had that good qualification, of a moderate expectation, almost to a fault."
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          "text": "1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, ch. 34 \"Tough Yarns,\"\nThese mosquitoes . . . are feeble, insignificant in size, diffident to a fault."
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          "ref": "1887, Charles Darwin, chapter 3, in The Autobiography of Charles Darwin",
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          "text": "Madam, I'm as gentle as a jellyfish, and peaceful to a fault.",
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          "ref": "2001 February 13, Aparisim Ghosh, “Subcontinental Drift: Shining Star”, in Time",
          "text": "Self-deprecating to a fault, he refuses any praise for his work.",
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        "To an excessive degree; extremely; counterproductively."
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        "(idiomatic) To an excessive degree; extremely; counterproductively."
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          "word": "liiaksi asti"
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          "word": "à l’excès"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "word": "túlzottan"
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          "word": "túlságosan"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "word": "túlontúl"
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