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

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

But, after what he had seen that night, he reflected that it was perhaps a work of supererogation to build a barrier between Judith and Throckmorton.

From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot

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

It were no less than supererogation to adduce evidences of the romantic spirit of the age of Shakespeare.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias