overcaution
English
Etymology
over- + caution
Noun
overcaution (uncountable)
- excessive caution
Verb
overcaution (third-person singular simple present overcautions, present participle overcautioning, simple past and past participle overcautioned)
- (transitive) To caution excessively.
- 1966, Joy Paul Guilford, Ann Anastasi, Fields of Psychology (page 219)
- Perhaps more importantly, his father was absent from home most of the time and his mother added to his timidity by overcautioning him against getting hurt.
- 1966, Joy Paul Guilford, Ann Anastasi, Fields of Psychology (page 219)