supererogatory
IPA: supɪrɪrˈɑgʌtɔri
adjective
- Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required, especially with reference to good works in Roman Catholicism
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Examples of "supererogatory" in Sentences
- They received bonus for supererogatory work.
- Consequently, it was not a supererogatory act.
- No one thinks that it is a supererogatory act.
- They get highly praised for a supererogatory act.
- In other words these miracles are supererogatory acts.
- Zaka is obligatory while Sadaqa is supererogatory or voluntary.
- Whether an act is supererogatory, or obligatory, can be debated.
- My servant continues to draw near to me with supererogatory works.
- This was supererogatory, for the tracks told their own tale too well.
- Should whistleblowing necessarily be classified as a supererogatory act
- In many schools of thought, donating money to charity is supererogatory.
- I typed it in to the computer and swiftly learned – I can see you smiling up your sleeve – that it is really “supererogatory”.
- Most of those people are utilitarians of one kind or another, so they do not recognize the existence of supererogatory actions.
- It might be morally better to give the money to charity, but such contributions seem supererogatory, that is, above and beyond the call of duty.
- Although adoption is arguably an unnatural arrangement, it is nonetheless widely agreed to be a laudatory, if not supererogatory, service to society.
- Carrying a pregnancy to term and enduring the violent crisis of childbirth is a supererogatory act of grace on the part of a woman, not an obligation.
- Christian virtue was conceived, in much greater freedom from self-seeking, as the-simple fruit of faith; and the notion of supererogatory works became impossible in view of the decided recognition, that the life even of the most holy always falls short of moral perfection.
- The evangelical tendency which during the time of the universal domination of the Romish church had never entirely disappeared, and which, especially since the appearance of the Waldenses, had been growing more positive in its opposition to the corrupted church, directed its efforts from the very first against the anti-scriptural and arbitrary ordinances of said church, especially against the work-holiness of monastic morality, in order to vindicate the moral freedom of the Christian personality, and also against the sophistical laxity of the more recent period; this tendency insists above all upon faith-born love as the source and essence of all true morality, and rejects the notion of supererogatory merit as arising from the observance of the so-called evangelical counsels. —