How To Use Supererogation In A Sentence
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A gift is often an act of supererogation, something that is morally good to do, but not required.
MJR Montoya: On the Politics of Giving and Receiving -- Obama and the Peace Prize
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Giving a gift to a powerful person can be seen as an act of supererogation.
MJR Montoya: On the Politics of Giving and Receiving -- Obama and the Peace Prize
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However, praiseworthiness is associated with the evaluation of the agent rather than the act, while supererogation refers primarily to the act.
How to Kill a Missionary
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I say that these - which are the laws of mesmerism in its general features - it would be supererogation to demonstrate; nor shall I inflict upon my readers so needless a demonstration to-day.
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In partnership with moral theology, it forms also a practical theology of the Christian life that does not require perfection as supererogation.
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All this comes as a prodigal act of supererogation: Merely confronted with Shakespeare's poetic diction and iambic pentameter, few cast members manage to keep their heads above water.
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I am going to go out on a limb and say that that "supererogation" is yet another one of these instances. on 01 May 2009 at 11: 40 pm + Alan
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Unlike the concepts of justice and duty, which have deep roots in both ordinary language and everyday moral judgment, the idea of supererogation is only tenuously anchored in common moral discourse and the concept itself is a theoretical construct.
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Europe: I mean a month at least, taking the bark even to supererogation, that is, some time longer than Dr. Middleton requires; for, I presume, you are got over your childishness about tastes, and are sensible that your health deserves more attention than your palate.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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As a result, there can be no question of moving from commandments to counsels in a simplistic way, and no sense that perfection involves supererogation.
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But this double role of normative discourse inevitably raises the idea of supererogation, the category of actions that are praiseworthy (either in creating good states of affairs or in reflecting a particularly virtuous trait of character) yet at the same time not obligatory.
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He can make this claim because of his adherence to the holiness code and his supererogation of the law.
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I mean a month at least, taking the bark even to supererogation, that is, some time longer than Dr. Middleton requires; for, I presume, you are got over your childishness about tastes, and are sensible that your health deserves more attention than your palate.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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But on the other hand, it must be remembered that her standard of exactingness was 'high, and some of the things that in her eyes it was merely culpable to leave undone might be counted by others among virtues of supererogation.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
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When they are about to descend upon a field of oats or wheat, two or three mount guard as sentinels, and on the approach of danger, cry _Geck-geck - geck_; this precaution seems a work of supererogation, as they are so saucy that they will hardly be frightened away; and if they rise it is only to alight on the same field at a little distance, or fly up to the trees, where their look-out posts are.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
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It would be "supererogation" to go into our early legislation, which is familiar to the colony in a hundred publications, besides the fact that
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
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In my Donatus, quoth Friar John, I could find yet but three times or tenses, the preterit, the present, and the future; doubtless here the fourth ought to be a work of supererogation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
