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Definition of Supererogations
1. supererogation [n] - See also: supererogation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Supererogations
Literary usage of Supererogations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Court of the Gentiles, Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human by Theophilus Gale (1677)
"... thereby to fil up his Trea- furie of supererogations, and Merits, which he by
his Indulgentes would ..."
2. The Apology for the Church of England: And a Treatise of the Holy Scriptures by John Jewel (1846)
"And in order to the shortening this, the prayers and supererogations of men ...
The prayers and supererogations (ie acts of penance and mortification orcr ..."
3. Othello by William Shakespeare (2001)
"54) : The character of Iago is one of the supererogations of Shakespeare's genius.
Some persons, more nice than wise, have thought this whole character ..."
4. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"... together with al thuir supererogations ; because they cannot bear that the
praise and glory of all goodness, strength, righteousness, and wisdom, ..."
5. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1844)
"I say nothing of the nature of the supererogations which these men wish to boast
of before God ; for they are contemptible trifles, which he has never ..."
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1880)
"... obedience, vows, alms, fasting, supererogations, before God's Commandments;
their own ordinances instead of his precepts, and keep them in ignorance, ..."
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