Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being superabundant, or more than enough; excessive abundance; excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
extreme abundance ; abundance to a vast degree that seems almost excessive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quantity that is more than what is appropriate
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Examples
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
Think Progress » Tea Party Movement As Popular As Socialism 2010
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St Thomas Aquinas once said Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance
Think Progress » Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks. 2010
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Finally, A.O Scott hit on what I think is the central issue: what he termed a "superabundance" of information and choice brought on largely by technology.
John Farr: Are the Best Movies for Grown-Ups Being Made Outside the U.S.? John Farr 2011
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Finally, A.O Scott hit on what I think is the central issue: what he termed a "superabundance" of information and choice brought on largely by technology.
John Farr: Are the Best Movies for Grown-Ups Being Made Outside the U.S.? John Farr 2011
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Already we have Doctors and Diseases in superabundance, and the supply of Dollars is wholly subject to human control.
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Already we have Doctors and Diseases in superabundance, and the supply of Dollars is wholly subject to human control.
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Already we have Doctors and Diseases in superabundance, and the supply of Dollars is wholly subject to human control.
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To cite one example, St. Thomas Aquinas maintained that "whatever we have in 'superabundance'-that is, above and beyond what will reasonably satisfy our own needs and those of our family, for the present and foreseeable future-'is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance'" (p. 20).
A Thinking Reed 2009
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The fourth consideration is a certain plumpness, in other words, a superabundance of the vegetative function, plasticity ....
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Your Majesty has a large body of infantry in these islands; and although it is in the Yndias, where it seems to those in España that everything is in superabundance, that is
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