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Meanings of superfluity in English

Portuguese
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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