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officiousness


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Officious  \Of*fi"cious\,  a.  [L.  officiosus:  cf.F.  officieux  See 
  {Office}.] 
  1.  Pertaining  to  or  being  in  accordance  with  duty.  [R.] 
 
  If  there  were  any  lie  in  the  case,  it  could  be  no 
  more  than  as  officious  and  venial  one  --Note  on 
  Gen.  xxvii. 
  (Douay 
  version). 
 
  2.  Disposed  to  serve;  kind  obliging.  [Archaic] 
 
  Yet  not  to  earth  are  those  bright  luminaries 
  Officious.  --Milton. 
 
  They  were  tolerably  well  bred,  very  officious, 
  humane,  and  hospitable.  --Burke. 
 
  3.  Importunately  interposing  services;  intermeddling  in 
  affairs  in  which  one  has  no  concern;  meddlesome. 
 
  You  are  too  officious  In  her  behalf  that  scorns  your 
  services.  --Shak. 
 
  Syn:  Impertinent;  meddling.  See  {Impertinent}.  -- 
  {Of*fi"cious*ly},  adv  --  {Of*fi"cious*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  officiousness 
  n  :  aggressiveness  as  evidenced  by  intruding--by  advancing 
  oneself  or  one's  ideas  without  invitation  [syn:  {intrusiveness}, 
  {meddlesomeness}] 




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