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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
over-confidence

c.1700, from over- + confidence.

Usage examples of "over-confidence".

I am dealing leniently with you, Egbert, because it is a trick of the adversary to tempt to despair as well as to over-confidence.

Their enemies hadn't done that much damage to them in five millennia, and the fact that their own over-confidence had made it possible only made it worse.