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Pleonasm   /plˈiənˌæzm/   Listen
Pleonasm

noun
1.
Using more words than necessary.





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"Pleonasm" Quotes from Famous Books



... lines there is a slight error, which writers of the greatest genius very frequently fall into.—It will be needless to observe to the accurate reader, that in the fifth and sixth verses there is a verbal pleonasm where the poet speaks of the green delights of verdant vales. There is an oversight of the same kind in the Manners, an Ode, where ...
— The Poetical Works of William Collins - With a Memoir • William Collins
... sense, signifies "to strike violently"; whence the term "sledge-hammer". This consideration will remove the supposed pleonasm in the Saxon phrase, which ...
— The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle • Unknown


Words linked to "Pleonasm" :   pleonastic, verboseness, verbosity


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