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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This rule has been rigorously adhered to by the Administration for twenty years past, and in some instances, a tolerable ignorance of English has been added, as a merit of supererogation.
From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe
Where, however, the money is money which they are glad to get in any case, the legal tender quality is a matter of supererogation.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
This is such palpable nonsense that it would be a work of supererogation to prove its absurdity.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
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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