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officiousness
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Officiousness
(gcide) | Officious \Of*fi"cious\, a. [L. officiosus: cf. F. officieux.
See Office.]
1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. [R.]
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If there were any lie in the case, it could be no
more than an officious and venial one. --Note on
Gen. xxvii.
(Douay
version).
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2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic]
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Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
Officious. --Milton.
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They were tolerably well bred, very officious,
humane, and hospitable. --Burke.
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3. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
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You are too officious
In her behalf that scorns your services. --Shak.
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Syn: Impertinent; meddling. See Impertinent.
[1913 Webster] -- Of*fi"cious*ly, adv. --
Of*fi"cious*ness, n.
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officiousness
(wn) | officiousness
n 1: aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing
yourself or your ideas without invitation [syn:
intrusiveness, meddlesomeness, officiousness] |
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