superfluity

• Its utter superfluity--the perfection of her victory without it--was what galled him. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• In return for this superfluity, our Saxon line of kings is passed over with very little notice, only three legends, and those of very obscure personages, being interposed between Cadwallader and king Harold. —  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
• For a kumu-hula to have given instruction in the meaning of a song would have been a superfluity, as if one at the present day were to inform a group of well-educated actors and actresses who was Pompey or Julius Cćsar Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you trippingly on the tongue." —  Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
• Besides, as the body gets warm with exercise in walking, this air, by sucking out the humours from the frame, diminishes their superabundance, and disperses and thus reduces that superfluity which is more than the body can bear 6. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
• The hope of Christ's return was therefore a superfluity, but was not felt or set aside as such, because there was still a lively expectation of Christ's earthly Kingdom Footnote 233: No other name adhered to Christ so firmly as that of [Greek: kurios]; see a specially clear evidence of this, Novatian de trinit. —  History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)

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