Both Uses of
superfluous
in
Man And Superman
- Dickens, without the excuse of having to manufacture motives for Hamlets and Macbeths, superfluously punt his crew down the stream of his monthly parts by mechanical devices which I leave you to describe, my own memory being quite baffled by the simplest question as to Monks in Oliver Twist, or the long lost parentage of Smike, or the relations between the Dorrit and Clennam families so inopportunely discovered by Monsieur Rigaud Blandois.†
Chpt Ded.
- This superfluous energy has gone to his brain and to his muscle.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(superfluous) more than is needed, desired, or required