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Meanings of superfluity in English

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superabundância
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Extreme excess.

        superabundância
        Usage of superfluity in English
        1
        With him, sincerity in art was a fetish; in life, a superfluity.
        The Moon out of Reach
        2
        They might seem therefore to be both a superfluity and an incumbrance.
        The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
        3
        Now and again the superfluity of ashes encroached on the live coals.
        The Frontiersmen
        4
        The vacuity and the superfluity are thus partially compensated by each other.
        Cratylus
        5
        We have all that in common, the accusation of senescence and superfluity.
        BBC
        6
        Its utter superfluity-theperfection of her victory without it-waswhat galled him.
        Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
        7
        He can fulfil the law with ease, and earn God with superfluity.
        Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
        8
        I presume you have no superfluity of this commodity at your command.
        Debit and Credit / Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
        9
        Some are distinguished by a superfluity, others by a deficiency of undergrowth.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 / A Magazi...
        10
        They had shed superfluity, unlike those around them, who lived for it.
        Together
        11
        There was about him no superfluity of build, of gesture, of voice.
        Man-Size
        12
        Is it not very strange that this superfluity should make him miserable?
        Emile
        13
        The present superfluity of words is the result of the warfare.
        Lectures on Art
        14
        But I protest against the dandelions and the superfluity of groundsel.
        The Pleasures of Ignorance
        15
        The superfluity had become a necessity, and Knight was in love.
        A Pair of Blue Eyes
        16
        Believe me, there is no superfluity in the world so easily dispensed with.
        Balcony Stories
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