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surplusage

NOUN
  1. a quantity much larger than is needed

How To Use surplusage In A Sentence

  • A city directory would have been a surplusage, and we flattered the "garcon" by seeming to believe everything he said, exclaiming "Oh my! Shakspere, Personal Recollections
  • Neuerthelesse, she was shortlie after sent home, vnder the conduct of the earle of Worcester, associat with diuerse other noble and honorable personages, both men and women, hauing with hir all the iewels, ornaments, [Sidenote: Additions of the chron. of Flanders.] and plate which she brought into England, with a great surplusage besides giuen to hir by the king. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
  • This final clause strikes me as surplusage, and I would think it invites mischief: whether it employs instrumentalities therefrom, or whether its regulation or prohibition is part of a comprehensive federal regulatory scheme. The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment
  • Swathed in his abominable surplusage of bulk, he is as fair as any statue of astricted god or athlete that would suffer not by incarnation ... Yet Again
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