Usually means: Going beyond what's required ethically.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. supererogate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. supererogate: Collins English Dictionary
  3. supererogate: Wordnik
  4. supererogate: Wiktionary
  5. supererogate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. supererogate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. supererogate: Dictionary.com
  8. Supererogate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. supererogate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Supererogate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. supererogate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. supererogate: FreeDictionary.org
  13. supererogate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. supererogate: Legal dictionary

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  1. supererogate: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (supererogate)

adjective:  (rare) Supererogatory.
verb:  (intransitive, theology, Catholicism) To do more than God commands.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, with for) To make up with excess for the lack prepositioned by for.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, with of, with) To supererogate (in any sense) in the service of the prepositional argument.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To give that earned through supererogation to another.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) As in other senses but taking as an object the excess deeds or works.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To deserve or more than deserve.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To pay or expend extra.

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