1653 J. Gauden 253 It is easie for well-affected Christians to be over-scrupulous, and over-righteous.
1742 M. Jones Let. 18 Feb. in (1750) 237 Those pious Forms of Confession one meets with in some over-righteous Books, which shock ones Nature to repeat.
1979 L. Blue (1985) iv. 30 Songs of Vilna and poverty, with digs at drunken cantors and over-righteous Rabbis.