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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Every man feels that he is bigger than his job, and he is all the time doing what theologians call 'works of supererogation.'
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
Having no house, to spend money upon furniture was obviously a work of supererogation.
From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian
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
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.