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supererogation

NOUN
excess
Synonyms
STRONGEST
exuberance glut overkill surplus waste
STRONG
balance by-product enough exorbitance fat fulsomeness inundation lavishness leavings leftover luxuriance nimiety overflow overload overmuch overrun oversupply overweight plenty plethora profusion redundance redundancy refuse remainder residue rest spare superabundance superfluity surfeit wastefulness
WEAK
overdose recrement the limit too much too much of a good thing
Antonyms
STRONGEST
insufficiency lack need want
STRONG
base core few little scarcity
WEAK
dearth deficiency deprivation economy frugality moderation poverty privation shortcoming
NOUN
redundancy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
attrition
STRONG
circumlocution overabundance periphrasis pleonasm profusion prolixity superabundance superfluity tautology verbiage verboseness verbosity
WEAK
copiosity macrology
Antonyms
STRONG
conciseness lack
NOUN
superfluousness
Synonyms
WEAK
balance by-product embarrassment enough excessiveness exorbitance extravagance extravagancy extravagantness exuberance fat fulsomeness glut inundation lavishness leavings leftover luxuriance nimiety overabundance overdose overflow overkill overload overmuch overrun oversupply overweight plenty plethora profusion recrement redundance redundancy refuse remainder residue rest spare superabundance superfluity surfeit surplus the limit too much too much of a good thing waste wastefulness

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The President of the Board of Supererogation did all his thinking vicariously in terms of Mr. Angrove.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

In the meantime, the Sailor was having to sustain the shock of a first meeting with the President of the Board of Supererogation.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

Before the evening was over, it was tolerably certain that the President of the Board of Supererogation would identify himself publicly and at length with the minority report.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

Supererogation, sū-pėr-er-ō-gā′shun, n. doing more than duty requires or is necessary for salvation, hence anything superfluous or uncalled for.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

John Lyly is a person of much more consequence in English literature than the conceited and pragmatical pedant who wrote Pierce's Supererogation.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George