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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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 Jane Addams
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 William Magnay
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
It were no less than supererogation to adduce evidences of the romantic spirit of the age of Shakespeare.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn