Associations to the word «Supererogation»

Wiktionary

SUPEREROGATION, noun. Doing more than is required.

Dictionary definition

SUPEREROGATION, noun. An effort above and beyond the call of duty.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope