superlucration

English

Etymology

From super- + Latin lucratio (“gain”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

superlucration (usually uncountable, plural superlucrations)

1. (obsolete) Excessive or extraordinary gain.
   • 1676, William Petty, Political Arithmetick, edition 1899, p. 254):

     The superlucration between France and Holl.

   • 1698, Charles Davenant, “On the Plantation Trade”, in Two Discourses on the Public Revenues and Trade of England:

     the Superlucration from the Labour of the same Number of Men, over and above their own Nourishment, could, no manner of ways have been so beneficial to the Kingdom.

References

“superlucration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.