All 7 Uses
superfluous
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Walden
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- Most men ... are so occupied with the ... superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
Chpt 1 *superfluously = (extra) more than is needed
- It may be guessed that I reduce almost the whole advantage of holding this superfluous property as a fund in store against the future, so far as the individual is concerned, mainly to the defraying of funeral expenses.†
Chpt 1
- Shall the respectable citizen thus gravely teach, by precept and example, the necessity of the young man's providing a certain number of superfluous glow-shoes, and umbrellas, and empty guest chambers for empty guests, before he dies?†
Chpt 1
- Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness.†
Chpt 2
- Or perchance, at evening, I hear him in his stable blowing off the superfluous energy of the day, that he may calm his nerves and cool his liver and brain for a few hours of iron slumber.†
Chpt 4
- But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.†
Chpt 10
- Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(1)
(superfluous) more than is needed, desired, or required
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)