supererogation
Example Sentences
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For any organization to have notified him of his nomination would have been supererogation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“An effort to corrupt Billy Sunday,” to use a paraphrase, “would be a work of supererogation, besides being immoral.”
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
If others are unlike us, we feel it as a presumption and an impertinence to usurp their place; if they are like us, it seems a work of supererogation.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William
He was not the man to waste his energies upon works of supererogation.
From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by Trevena, John
This is such palpable nonsense that it would be a work of supererogation to prove its absurdity.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon