supererogation
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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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Henry A. Clapp has recently shown this so clearly that it may seem a work of supererogation to again discuss the matter.
From Time in the Play of Hamlet by Edward P. Vining
The subsequent adventures of Palmerin bear such a strong likeness to those already related of him as to render their recital a work of supererogation.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
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 William Hazlitt
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 Louis Joseph Vance
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