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surplusages

surplusages is the plural of surplusage.

Meaning of surplusage

Noun

surplusage (countable and uncountable, plural surplusages)

  1. (archaic) A surplus; a superabundance.
    • If then thee list my offred grace to vse, / Take what thou please of all this surplusage; / If thee list not, leaue haue thou to refuse […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. Matter in pleading which is not necessary or relevant to the case, and may be rejected.
  3. A greater disbursement than the charge of the accountant amounts to.
    • one third-part of the surplusage of the estate of any person dying intetate, hall be distributed to his widow,and the reidue amongt his children by equal portions1802–1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature

Questions about surplusages

What is surplusages the plural of?
Surplusages is the plural of surplusage.

Words near surplusages in the dictionary

  1. surplus labour
  2. surplus to requirements
  3. surplus value
  4. surplus values
  5. surplusage
  6. surplusages
  7. surplused
  8. surpluses
  9. surplusing
  10. surplussed
  11. surplusses

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