supererogation
Example Sentences
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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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To these controversies belong his Pierces supererogation, Lond.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas
In the animal kingdom, a surreptitious and supposititious supererogation.
From The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. by Hubbard, Elbert
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 Addams, Jane
Races, you see, were not in a class with graduations; they were optional, works of supererogation.
From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells