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Meanings of surplusage in English
Usage of surplusage in English
1
But the surplusage of celebrities in this age is simply overwhelming.
2
At a time of action speech, beyond the curtest of monosyllables, was surplusage.
3
A revelation from heaven that simply told me my duty would be surplusage.
4
Yesterday you gave us surplusage when you shot up three men in Noches.
5
Never had he been favored with a surplusage of the root of all evil.
6
This gave surplusage to the sinister appearance he already had.
7
Part of the difficulty arises from surplusage of imagination.
8
Cease to come to these annual orgies in this hollow modern mockery-thesurplusage of raiment.
9
He is not to be dreaded by widows and orphans; he is a reducer of surplusage.
10
And "by the Board of Directors"-whichis surplusage, since Mrs. Eddy owns the Board.
11
And yet there remained a surplusage of unappropriated soul, whose vague and constant action distressed her.
12
In this age, when women claim a surplusage of all the brain power bestowed upon the race!
13
More money than this-thatis the surplusage that men lock up in their tin boxes, is a curse.
14
That out of her danger had resulted the engagement Diane had hoped for was surplusage of good luck.
15
We're giving y'u surplusage, that's all.
16
For in Shakspeare's characters, as in his language, there is surplusage, superabundance; the measure is heaped and running over.
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Surplusage through the time