erogatory

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Doing the good that is required in a situation; meeting the moral obligations.
    — Indeed, if the costs of going to war were lowered, what was supererogatory might become erogatory: lowering the costs to humanitarian war may take away one of the principal motivations (the harm to the intervening agent) for making it supererogatory.

词形变化

more erogatory comparative most erogatory superlative

词源

From Latin ērogō (“pay out, expend”), from ex (“out of, from”) + rogō (“ask; request”).
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