oversum

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A whole that is more than the sum of its parts

   A whole that is more than the sum of its parts; superaddition.

   • The tradition consists in understanding a politically active unit as an oversum (that is, a super-additive entity): The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
   • It follows from this counterbalance of majority rule and inalienable absolutes within a given society that the latter is ordered according to the oversum principle: The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
   • Democracy requires an oversum, a koiné, a res publica, a Genossenschaft, a commonwealth, a League such as the Iroquois, a Tewa-Pueblo, that is, an entity of which the citizens are members with membership duties and rights.
2. 2

   To add up incorrectly, arriving at a total that is too large.

   • In an account in the ledger, which has been ruled off as square, it is found that the credit side has been oversummed by £ 100.
   • and in measure your measure you always oversum — and now I have now come to tell you that this is the last time that I shall never call again and you only want

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