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Definition of Superfluities
1. superfluity [n] - See also: superfluity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superfluities
Literary usage of Superfluities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"Superfluities. The superfluities of professed Christians, would send the Gospel
... He who accustoms himself to buy superfluities, may be obliged, erelong, ..."
2. Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social by William Hurrell Mallock (1898)
"... 4 but the desire for superfluities depends on their mental powers, which vary.
The special appeal of luxury is mainly to the mind and the imagination ..."
3. Money and Value: An Inquiry Into the Means and Ends of Economic Production by Rowland Hamilton (1878)
"... that it would be a good thing if land were exempt from all rates, as then the
owners would have more CHAP. III. The exchange value of superfluities. ..."
4. Friends' Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1875)
"... :—Superfluities—Moderation 870 Confusion in the Workshops.....™ 270
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5. The Realistic Revolt in Modern Poetry by Arthur Melville Clark (1922)
"He may have many other non- essentials and many other superfluities of price but
he must be content with another name than poet. XI. We are, no doubt, ..."
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