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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This rule has been rigorously adhered to by the Administration for twenty years past, and in some instances, a tolerable ignorance of English has been added, as a merit of supererogation.
From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward
Black Mazzard did what was a work of supererogation as he encountered Bart’s eye—he scowled, his face being villainous enough without.
From Commodore Junk by Fenn, George Manville
The honest impressions of each man substantiate these assertions so clearly that all argument on the subject would be as great a work of supererogation as that of carrying shade to a forest.
From Papers from Overlook-House by Almore, Casper
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