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Synonyms for supererogation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : soo-per-er-uh-geyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌsu pərˈɛr əˌgeɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for supererogation
- balance
- by-product
- copiosity
- embarrassment
- enough
- excessiveness
- exorbitance
- extravagance
- extravagancy
- extravagantness
- exuberance
- fat
- fulsomeness
- glut
- inundation
- lavishness
- leavings
- leftover
- luxuriance
- macrology
- nimiety
- overdose
- overflow
- overkill
- overload
- overmuch
- overrun
- oversupply
- overweight
- plenty
- plethora
- recrement
- redundance
- redundancy
- refuse
- remainder
- residue
- rest
- spare
- surfeit
- surplus
- tautology
- the limit
- too much
- too much of a good thing
- verbiage
- verboseness
- verbosity
- waste
- wastefulness
Définition of supererogation
Origin :- 1520s, "the doing of more than duty requires," in Catholic theology, from Late Latin supererogationem (nominative supererogatio) "a payment in addition," from past participle stem of supererogare "pay or do additionally," from Latin super "above, over" (see super-) + erogare "pay out," from ex- "out" + rogare "ask, request" (see rogation).
- As in redundancy : noun repetition
- As in superfluousness : noun excess
- As in excess : noun overabundance of something
- His followers had accounted this a supererogation of pretence.
- Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
- Some readers will consider such an inquiry to be a work of supererogation.
- Extract from : « On the Genesis of Species » by St. George Mivart
- Haymaking and the building of barns are works of supererogation.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 » by Various
- To do more was supererogation, and ought to be credited to zeal.
- Extract from : « Between the Lines » by Henry Bascom Smith
- The idea of it has never occurred to us, simply because of its supererogation.
- Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
- His marriage, according to this, was a pure work of supererogation.
- Extract from : « The Story of Pocahantas » by Charles Dudley Warner
- By that time, of course, the retort is what the Catholics call "a work of supererogation."
- Extract from : « The Wit of Women » by Kate Sanborn
- I was free to immortalize them; and my fiddling was thenceforth a work of supererogation.
- Extract from : « Mystic London: » by Charles Maurice Davies
- This is no work of supererogation, no matter of mere liking and choice.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians » by G. G. Findlay
- It is a work of supererogation and consequently of the nature of sin.
- Extract from : « The Cradle of Mankind » by W.A. Wigram
Antonyms for supererogation
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