pleonasm

Example Sentences

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Note he won’t shout loudly – that’s known as a pleonasm, when more words than necessary are used.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2019

The phrase 'think for one's self' is a pleonasm.

From Time Magazine Archive

If we say the full phrase is, "All things whatsoever he doeth, shall prosper;" this presents, to an English ear, a still more obvious pleonasm.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

This consideration will remove the supposed pleonasm in the Saxon phrase, which is here literally translated.

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Ingram, J. H. (James Henry)

This is implied in the omitted words, which Mr. Reddie—whose omission would have been dishonest if he had seen their meaning—no doubt took for pleonasm, superfluity, overmuchness.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene