Meaning of overplusage | Babel Free

Definitions

Overplus; excess.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Soho became an attracting and eradiating centre of scientific mechanism and artistic taste and skill, which not only supplied the manufacturing industries of Birmingham with their remarkable and diversified faculties, but diffused the overplusage throughout the kingdom and the world.”

“Under certain conditions, an overplusage of feminine elements in a masculine portion of mind will produce a poet.”

“I do not remember your reporting any that cost more than the sum set forth. Do you attempt to report those? You report the savings; do you report the overplusage?”

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