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Acts of charity are, by definition, supererogatory — commendably above and beyond what moral duty requires.

But for most of us, who have a body of knowledge to talk about and some stories to tell, slideware is supererogatory.

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He’s an ineffective, chronically ruminative man who thinks of himself as a “supererogatory weirdo.”

No conditions seem so propitious for a practical confederation as those of Spanish America; with a few exceptions, the virtual unity of language, laws, general race-ideals, would seem to render protection of frontiers supererogatory.

For one so often finds that acts specially showing delicacy and considerateness, little supererogatory works of kindness, are taken unkindly.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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