superfluity

superfluity

1. liiallisuus, ylenmääräisyys; turhuus

Liittyvät sanat: superfluous

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superfluity

ylenmääräisyys, kohtuuttomuus, liiallisuus, ylettömyys, liika, ylenpalttisuus, yltäkylläisyys, hämmennys, yletön määrä, työttömyys, tarpeettomuus.

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Englannin sanakirja

superfluity englanniksi

1. The quality or state of being superfluous; overflowingness; in excess or overabundance.

2. Something superfluous, as a luxury.

3. puhekieltä collective noun|Collective noun for a group of nuns.

4. 1905, Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds, Macmillan and Co, (1905), http://archive.org/stream/highwaysandbywa00griggoogpage/n288/ page 266:

These probably mark the dwelling of a colony, or to speak more precisely, according to Dame Juliana Berners, a superfluity of nuns from Godstow, which nunnery had a cell there, and was patron of the living.

5. 2011, Sam Cullen, The Odd Bunnies, http://books.google.com/books?id=9WFVD4_4x08C&pg=PT24&dq=%22superfluity+of+nuns%22 unnumbered page:

Alice put Anna back on the shelf and turned up the volume on the TV, where a local news reporter was imparting a salutary tale of woe involving a superfluity of nuns who'd got into a scrape at a crab festival.

6. 2012, Beth Yarnall, Rush, Crimson Romance (2012), ISBN 9781440554223, http://books.google.com/books?id=ihKn6RBdHEEC&pg=PT109&dq=%22superfluity%22 unnumbered page:

(�) That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.”

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