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supererogation





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For any organization to have notified him of his nomination would have been supererogation.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was not pharasaical enough to imagine that he had performed any works of supererogation.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.

That no one had done so was probably due in most part to an impression that to carry such information were work of supererogation....

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph

A new work on the subject of Mary Queen of Scots runs an eminent risk of being considered a work of supererogation.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford

Here comes in Hermas’s doctrine of works of supererogation, in fulfilment of counsels of perfection, on lines already seen in Did. vi.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various




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