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superfluity

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1. a herd of nuns
2. something superfluous

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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.

Herbert A. Evans, Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds
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That man could charm the panties off a superfluity of nuns.

Beth Yarnall, Rush, Crimson Romance (2012)
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beneath the most ordinary places, her dressmaker's flat, the Avenue du Bois, the Hippodrome, he could feel (dissembled there, by virtue of that temporal superfluity which, after the most detailed account of how a day has been spent, always leaves something over, that may serve as a hiding place for certain unconfessed actions)

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] (1913)
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