surplusage

But far more satisfactory for absorbing the surplusage of labour was the development which the period witnessed in manufacture.

There is a great surplusage of words and a seeming inability to get to the point.

A surplusage given to one part is paid out of a reduction from another part of the same creature.

No, sir; it is not necessary and it is entirely what they call surplusage.

His account was heavy enough as it stood without piling up surplusage.