overplus

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Complete expresses not excess or overplus, and yet not mere sufficiency, but harmony, proportion, fitness to a design, or ideal.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

Any overplus at the year’s end, any unexpected addition to their means, sooner or later found its way into the booksellers’ hands.

From The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

If in his longer poems there is sometimes a lack of last finish, and an overplus of language—there is a frankness of utterance and a billowy undulation of movement that have compensating charms.

From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Mitchell, Donald G.

And if there be fewer, the overplus may be omitted: Provided that this last Collect, Epistle, and Gospel shall always be used upon the Sunday next before Advent.

From The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

A delay of twenty-four hours in the despatch, after posting, is rendered indispensable by the possibility there is of an overplus of such bulky packages on particular occasions.”

From Cheap Postage by Leavitt, Joshua