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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To these controversies belong his Pierces supererogation, Lond.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton
This, to speak of it forbearingly, may be safely catalogued among the works of supererogation.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
“Why don’t you get yer numbers painted over again, then?” grunted the voice, which seemed to consider an apology as a work of supererogation.
From A Little World by George Manville Fenn
It is perhaps a work of supererogation for me after the lapse of three and a half centuries to endorse and verify the accuracy of that word picture of the buffalo.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska