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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

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

Peeping cautiously through the doorway he saw Miss Mercy alone in the bar, perfunctorily at work upon a task of supererogation which the paternal wisdom had set her.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

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




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