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supererogation





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For any organization to have notified him of his nomination would have been supererogation.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Why don’t you get yer numbers painted over again, then?” grunted the voice, which seemed to consider an apology as a work of supererogation.

From A Little World by George Manville Fenn

The author may, of course, add a quotation from his writings, or a sentiment, if so disposed; but this must be considered as a work of supererogation, and an exceptional manifestation of courtesy.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown

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

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

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


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