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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Having no house, to spend money upon furniture was obviously a work of supererogation.
From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian
To these controversies belong his Pierces supererogation, Lond.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas
To "prove" the "equation of exchange," however, is, first, a work of supererogation, and, second, in no sense a proof of the quantity theory.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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