supererogation

The donation would still be an act of “supererogation,” something above and beyond what was required.

It was, to use a philosopher’s sesquipedalian word, an act of supererogation.

It is the old idea of works of supererogation over again, in which, as in many other things, they show the closest resemblance to Romanism.

Here comes in Hermas’s doctrine of works of supererogation, in fulfilment of counsels of perfection, on lines already seen in Did. vi.

If others are unlike us, we feel it as a presumption and an impertinence to usurp their place; if they are like us, it seems a work of supererogation.