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Meaning of supernumerous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Being one of too many; redundant.

Examples

“Some vvill vvonder, that Empſon and Dudley (the Royal Promoters then in prime) did not catch him [Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden] by the Collar, or pick an hole in his Govvn, upon the breach of ſome ruſty ſumptuary Statute; the rather, becauſe lately the Earl of Oxford vvas heavily fined for ſupernumerous attendance.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

supernumery supernutritional supernutritious superoanterior superobedient superobese

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