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Excess   /ˈɛksˌɛs/  /ɪksˈɛs/   Listen
Excess

adjective
1.
More than is needed, desired, or required.  Synonyms: extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus.  "Found some extra change lying on the dresser" , "Yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant" , "Skills made redundant by technological advance" , "Sleeping in the spare room" , "Supernumerary ornamentation" , "It was supererogatory of her to gloat" , "Delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words" , "Extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts" , "Surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
noun
1.
A quantity much larger than is needed.  Synonyms: nimiety, surplus, surplusage.
2.
Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.  Synonyms: excessiveness, inordinateness.
3.
The state of being more than full.  Synonyms: overabundance, surfeit.
4.
Excessive indulgence.  Synonym: overindulgence.






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... a temperature of 38o to 40o Cent. Into each, a quantity of unboiled fibrin was introduced, and the whole allowed to stand for four hours, the temperature being maintained during the whole time, and care being taken that each contained throughout an excess of fibrin. At the end of the period each liquid was filtered. Of the filtrate, which of course contained as much of the fibrin as had been digested during the four hours, [page 90] 10 cub. cent. were measured out and evaporated, and dried at 110o ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin

... soil fertile, there are two gains from this rotation: first, the clean cultivation of the corn crop just ahead of the beets destroys many of the weed seeds; second, the beets must be protected from too much nitrogen in the soil, for an excess of nitrogen makes a beet too large to be rich in sugar. The manure, heavily applied to the corn, will leave enough nitrogen and other plant food in the soil to make a good crop of beets and avoid ...
— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett

... incapable of decisive action, irresolute, effeminate in the instability of his mind. Yes, he had been effeminate until the last; effeminate, unfit to form any virile judgment of his own hysterical mysticism. In this judgment there was perhaps an imperfect sincerity, an excess of bitterness, a futile act of rebellion ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro

... fame are mostly identified,—the tariff, to a moderate form of which the President in 1829 had announced himself to be favorable, but which he afterwards more and more opposed, on the ground that the revenues already produced were in excess of the needs of the government. The subject was ably discussed,—first, in a resolution introduced by Senator Clay declarative of principles involving some reduction of duties on articles that did not compete with American industries, but maintaining generally the "American System" successfully ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XII • John Lord

... in their cheeks! See 'em put up their hands to their bonnets, and how their little feet peep out when the wind blows their petticoats against their legs!" and Purdy rose in his stirrups and stretched himself, in an excess of wellbeing. ...
— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson


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