supernumerous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Being one of too many; redundant.

"Some vvill vvonder, that Empſon and Dudley (the Royal Promoters then in prime) did not catch him [Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden] by the Collar, or pick an hole in his Govvn, upon the breach of ſome ruſty ſumptuary Statute; the rather, becauſe lately the Earl of Oxford vvas heavily fined for ſupernumerous attendance."

From super- + numerous.

more supernumerous (comparative) most supernumerous (superlative)

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