Crossword-Solution: SUPEREROGATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Supererogation | n. | The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SUPEREROGATION”
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| the act of performing more than is required by duty, obligation or need | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
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greedy person
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Sentences with SUPEREROGATION (5)
And the priest was in his heart satisfied; though he was consciously telling himself that “he was sorry for the Senora, and that he would have been glad if the sins of her husband could have been set against the works of supererogation which the saints of his own convent had amassed.” “But he is an infidel; he believes not in the saints,” he muttered; “then how could they avail him!” Antonia met him at the door.
Scott for his supposed work of supererogation in making a new translation when Lane's held the field, the fact really being that Scott's translation preceded Lane's by nearly thirty years.
Interesting as the numerous inventions are, it would be a work of supererogation to digest all these patents in the present pages, as they represent not only the inception but also the gradual development and growth of the wax-record type of phonograph from its infancy to the present perfected machine and records now so widely known all over the world.
During the past one hundred years there is a tendency perceptible, in the development of men's dress especially, to discontinue methods of expenditure and the use of symbols of leisure which must have been irksome, which may have served a good purpose in their time, but the continuation of which among the upper classes today would be a work of supererogation; as, for instance, the use of powdered wigs and of gold lace, and the practice of constantly shaving the face.
Moreover, he made new and extraordinary "revelations,"--that he had ascended into the seventh heaven and held converse with Gabriel; and he now added to his creed that old lie of Eastern theogonies, that base element of all false religions,--that man can propitiate the Deity by works of supererogation; that man can purchase by ascetic labors and sacrifices his future salvation.