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Surplusage

noun
1.
A quantity much larger than is needed.  Synonyms: excess, nimiety, surplus.





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... across the Ocean into these nooks, would teach you of us. There are three Photographs which I reckon fairly like; these are properly what I had to send you today,—little thinking that so much surplusage would accumulate about them; to which I now at once put an end. Your friend Conway,* who is a boundless admirer of yours, used to come our way regularly now and then; and we always liked him well. A man of most ...
— The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. • Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Words linked to "Surplusage" :   overmuch, overmuchness, overabundance, superabundance, surplus, nimiety


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