This is both supererogation and imbecility--supererogation because he already knows that it is dangerous, and imbecility because it is quite impossible to kill a passion by arguing against it.
But one is not obliged to perform these duties with the motive of charity in mind, nor to elect for self works of supererogation or counsels of perfection.
The doctrine of supererogation is as unreasonable as it is unscriptural and untrue.
The war of pamphlets between Harvey and Nash was a very furious word-battle, and its two chief monuments, Pierce's Supererogation and Have with you to Saffron Walden, are as choice examples of scurrility as can easily be found.
My Prose is resolute, as Beuis sworde: March rampant beast in formidable hide: Supererogation Squire on cockhorse ride: Zeale shapes an aunswer to the blouddiest worde.
Before the evening was over, it was tolerably certain that the President of the Board of Supererogation would identify himself publicly and at length with the minority report.
The President of the Board of Supererogation did all his thinking vicariously in terms of Mr. Angrove.
The Apostle had recourse to this supererogation for three motives.
For precepts are not given about works of supererogation which are a matter of counsel.
For those things seemingly belong to religious perfection, which are works of supererogation and are not binding upon all.
Of Sir John Macdonald's loyalty it would be a work of supererogation to speak.
It would be a work of supererogation to attempt to show that man never fell in a moral sense, after having shown that he never occupied an elevated moral position to fall from.
He is a civil Catholic, that holds nothing more steadfastly than supererogation in all that he undertakes, for he undertakes nothing but what he overdoes.
The fact is so generally admitted, that it is almost a work of supererogation to adduce instances of it.
It would be a work of supererogation to dwell upon the pernicious results or the intrinsic hollowness of this system.
Thus by perception the abstract consciousness, which before existed uninfluenced by the external object, becomes modified under the form of a jar, &c.
We know no supererogation but that of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whose merits salvation is placed within the reach of all men.
This was the supererogation of literal matter-of-fact curiosity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "supererogation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: excess; overemphasis; overwork; strain; tax
