Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Surplus; excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Surplus.
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- noun obsolete
surplus
Etymologies
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Examples
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A superplus means more money were taken from the people than the government planned too spend.
How George Bush entertains the Italian Prime Minister at the White House. Ann Althouse 2008
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He hath success in the main business, and there is a superplus besides, some accession to his portion, that comes of will, so to speak.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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