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Example sentences from the Web for supererogationBut the excess must be in the line of duty; merely needless and irrelevant action is not supererogation. Write It Right|Ambrose Bierce Some readers will consider such an inquiry to be a work of supererogation. On the Genesis of Species|St. George Mivart Would to God that our labor of love could be regarded as a work of supererogation! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus|American Anti-Slavery Society But it would be work, of supererogation to multiply instances of similar calamity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 410, December 1849|Various
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nounthe performance of work in excess of that required RC Church supererogatory prayers, devotions, etc Words nearby supererogationsuperelevated, superelevation, supereminent, superencipher, supererogate, supererogation, supererogatory, superette, superexcitation, superfamily, superfecta Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to supererogationattrition, glut, waste, exuberance, surplus, overkill, profusion, overabundance, superabundance, verbosity, circumlocution, superfluity, verboseness, verbiage, prolixity, pleonasm, periphrasis, tautology, exorbitance, surfeit |