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supererogation
/ ˌsuːpərˌɛrəˈɡeɪʃən /
noun
- the performance of work in excess of that required
- RC Church supererogatory prayers, devotions, etc
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I was free to immortalize them; and my fiddling was thenceforth a work of supererogation.
Otherwise they would not emphasize free will, natural strength, the works of supererogation, etc.
It really is a little bit too cheap, a work of supererogation in the matter of hypocrisy.
If the squire undertook by way of supererogation to justify his position he appealed to tradition and experience.
The first of these was in itself so fatal that it is almost a work of supererogation to state the others.
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