Supererogatory vs Supererogant - What's the difference?
supererogatory | supererogant |
Pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required, especially with reference to good works in Roman Catholicism
*1886 , , The Bostonians .
*: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.
* 1988 , Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
* 2002 ,David Heyd: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
As adjectives the difference between supererogatory and supererogant
is that supererogatory is pertaining to supererogation; doing more than is required, especially with reference to good works in Roman Catholicism while supererogant is supererogatory.supererogatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- ‘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.
- It is, for example, not clear whether “love thy enemy” is a precept or a supererogatory counsel.
