overplus
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Complete expresses not excess or overplus, and yet not mere sufficiency, but harmony, proportion, fitness to a design, or ideal.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
Her cloudy condition possibly indicates an overplus of water.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
Now it is clear that in this case a schoolmaster can subsist; since, in the course of the very first year, he gets an overplus beyond this dock-money of his office.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
Each overplus and each deficiency You will make good.
From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting
Let Nature but interpose a sheet of water or a bit of wood, and the merriest joy-bells that ever rang are infused with that melancholy which is the overplus of rapture.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
