Both Uses of
superfluous
in
The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- He had left her that morning with a sense of the most superfluous of shocks: it was like a collision between vessels in broad daylight.†
Chpt 47 *
- It seemed to Isabel that she had been very clever; she had artfully disposed of the superfluous Caspar.†
Chpt 47
Definition:
more than is needed, desired, or required