Word Meanings - SUPEREROGATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires. Works of supererogation , those good deeds believed to have been performed by saints, or capable of being performed by men, over and above what is required for their

Additional info about word: SUPEREROGATION

The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires. Works of supererogation , those good deeds believed to have been performed by saints, or capable of being performed by men, over and above what is required for their own salvation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SUPEREROGATION)

• Superfluity
• Redundance
• needlessness
• supererogation
• pleonasm
• excess

Related words: (words related to SUPEREROGATION)

• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• PLEONASM
  Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• REDUNDANCE; REDUNDANCY
  Surplusage inserted in a pleading which may be rejected by the court without impairing the validity of what remains. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess. 2. That which is redundant
• SUPEREROGATION
  The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires. Works of supererogation , those good deeds believed to have been performed by saints, or capable of being performed by men, over and above what is required for their