All 7 Uses
superfluous
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Far from the Madding Crowd
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- The dog took no notice, for he had arrived at an age at which all superfluous barking was cynically avoided as a waste of breath
Chpt 4-6 *superfluous = more than is needed
- "Let me think," said Mrs. Hurst, poking the fire superfluously.... "Yes—bless you, ever so many young men.†
Chpt 4-6
- Farmer Oak had one-and-a-half Christian characteristics too many to succeed with Bathsheba: his humility, and a superfluous moiety of honesty.†
Chpt 4-6
- He always signed his name "Henery"—strenuously insisting upon that spelling, and if any passing schoolmaster ventured to remark that the second "e" was superfluous and old-fashioned, he received the reply that "H-e-n-e-r-y" was the name he was christened and the name he would stick to—in the tone of one to whom orthographical differences were matters which had a great deal to do with personal character.†
Chpt 7-9
- An unconscious look of assent in Bathsheba's eyes betrayed that something more than his coldness had made her also feel that Liddy would be superfluous in the suggested scene.†
Chpt 25-27
- One mouth in each front had been closed by bygone church-wardens as superfluous, and two others were broken away and choked—a matter not of much consequence to the wellbeing of the tower, for the two mouths which still remained open and active were gaping enough to do all the work.†
Chpt 46-48
- Finally, with the superfluous magnanimity of a woman whose narrower instincts have brought down bitterness upon her instead of love, she wiped the mud spots from the tomb as if she rather liked its words than otherwise, and went again home.†
Chpt 46-48
Definitions:
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(1)
(superfluous) more than is needed, desired, or required
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)