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

He was not pharasaical enough to imagine that he had performed any works of supererogation.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.

It is perhaps a work of supererogation for me after the lapse of three and a half centuries to endorse and verify the accuracy of that word picture of the buffalo.

From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska

It is a work of supererogation to furnish falsehoods for British travellers.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

I will give the reader an instance of a work of supererogation, in which he will at least be at a loss to discover any "impiety."

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby