supererogation

What I can add myself in the witness - box will be only a supererogation.

The idea of it has never occurred to us, simply because of its supererogation.

O, no, that had been supererogation; you shall never hear your courtier call but by one of these three.

People need not engage in supererogation in order to be responsible moral agents.

A schoolmaster was fond of asking new boys to take part in acts of "supererogation".

Supererogation may be considered as performing above and beyond a normative course of duty to further benefits and functionality.

Hirst is originally unoriginal, to put it positively: a master of supererogation.

To maximise profits is for management not an optional exercise or a work of supererogation: it is management's basic duty.

And then he promised to send the vice-consul to "get information of the captain's doings": surely supererogation of deceit.

Gabriel Harvey in his Pierce's Supererogation' 1593 wrote:

Rather they are "acts of supererogation" that exceed the minimum stipulated in the Commandments in the Bible.

It refers to the minimum requirement of kindness obliged by Kantian ethics; those actions which go beyond the call of duty are considered supererogation.

Harvey refers to him in his work Pierces Supererogation, saying that Chute was an orator and a herald.

Supererogation (Late Lat.

- Harvey Pierce's Supererogation.

The distinction between minimal decency (an ethical obligation) and supererogation helps moral agents understand and protect their own and each other's rational autonomy.

Voluntary works-besides, over and above God's commandments-which they call works of supererogation, cannot be taught without arrogancy and impiety.

The carver's hooded and veiled head was bent over a work of supererogation, gouging out from another fistful of wood the features of a recognizable child.

Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation (1593), a response to Nashe's attacks on Harvey and his brothers.

Pierces Supererogation contains two poems by Chute and letters in which he praises Harvey and lambasts Nashe.

Some years ago I might have been induced, by an occasion like the present, to attempt a formal refutation of their doctrine; at present it would be a work of supererogation.

Harvey rebutted the personal charges made by Nashe in Pierce's supererogation, or a New Prayse of the Old Asse (1593).

In the theology of the Roman Catholic Church, "works of supererogation" (also called "acts of supererogation") are those performed beyond what God requires.

Nashe attempted to apologise in the preface to Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem (1593), but the appearance of Pierce's Supererogation shortly after offended Nashe anew.

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.