SUPEREROGATION
\sˌuːpəɹɪɹəɡˈe͡ɪʃən], \sˌuːpəɹɪɹəɡˈeɪʃən], \s_ˌuː_p_ə_ɹ_ɪ_ɹ_ə_ɡ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of SUPEREROGATION
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By Daniel Lyons
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A doing more than is necessary or required; doctrine that one may do more good works than are necessary for his salvation.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Performance of more than duty requires. Works of supererogation, those good deeds supposed to have been performed by saints, over and above what is required for their own salvation, and the merit of which is held to be transferable to others in need of indulgence.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The performance of more duty than what is required; in Rom. Cath. Ch., those good deeds supposed to have been performed by saints over and above what was required for their own salvation.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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s[=u]-p[.e]r-er-[=o]-g[=a]'shun, n. doing more than duty requires or is necessary for salvation, hence anything superfluous or uncalled for.--adjs. SUPEREROG'ATIVE, SUPEREROG'ATORY (SUPERER'OGANT).--WORKS OF SUPEREROGATION (R.C.), works not absolutely required of each individual for salvation, but which may be done for the sake of greater perfection--affording the church a store of surplus merit, to eke out the deficient merit of others. [L. super, above, erog[=a]re, -[=a]tum, to pay out.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[L.] Properly, a donation to soldiers above their pay. The Latin Church maintains that all good works done by holy men over and beyond the standard necessary to be reached for their own salvation, pass into a common treasury, and become profitable to those who are less advanced.
By Henry Percy Smith
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n. Performance of more than duty or necessity requires ;-works of supererogation, among Papists, good works done by an individual beyond what is needful for his own salvation, and therefore meritorious and available in procuring the salvation of another.
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