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Definition of Surplusages
1. surplusage [n] - See also: surplusage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surplusages
Literary usage of Surplusages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Consideration of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Embracing Also the by Wolcott Noble Griswold (1887)
"Stimulated by the small momentum of greed thus-engendered, they turned regretfully
and covetously for the surplusages, which, nature in its abundant ..."
2. A Consideration of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Embracing Also the by Wolcott Noble Griswold (1887)
"Stimulated by the smal) momentum of greed thus engendered, they turned regretfully
and covetously for the surplusages, which, nature in its abundant ..."
3. Chambers's Information for the People: A Popular Encyclopaedia by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1853)
"In this case, however, all surplusages, instead of going into the hands of a
trading company, remain the property of the insurers, and arc liable to be ..."
4. Correspondence of William Pitt: When Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"From the money and goods produced by the sale of these surplusages, with many
others of less Consequence, sold by one means or other to the Spaniards, ..."
5. Correspondence of William Pitt: When Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"From the money and goods produced by the sale of these surplusages, with many
others of less Consequence, sold by one means or other to the Spaniards, ..."
6. Correspondence of William Pitt, when Secretary of State, with Colonial by William Pitt, Gertrude Selwyn Kimball, Great Britain Foreign Office (1906)
"Supposing this Intercourse of the Colonies with the Spaniards, French, and Dutch,
intirely stopped, the persons concerned in producing these surplusages ..."
7. Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New-York: Began the 9th by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1861)
"For that in the said bill is given certain surplusages of taxes which upon due
inspection into the accounts, receipts and payments and ..."
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