supererogatoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /suːpəɹɛˈɹɒɡətəɹi/

形容詞

supererogatory (comparative more supererogatory, superlative most supererogatory)

1. Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required.
   • 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:

     They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.

   • 1989, Anthony Burgess, “Un”, in Any Old Iron, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Pocket Books, 1990, →ISBN, page 20:

     "In now you come," she ordered, "and we make love." That seemed supererogatory to David Jones, who, under the gaze of the painted deer, got in there and did as he was told.

   • 2002, David Heyd, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

     It is, for example, not clear whether “love thy enemy” is a precept or a supererogatory counsel.

   • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:

     It [capitalism] increasingly deploys not just bureaucratic repression but an invested, overt, supererogatory sadism.

2. (Roman Catholicism) Of a deed or action, morally benevolent and exceeding the strict requirement of God.

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