pleonasm
Example Sentences
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She permits such pleonasms as "recollect back," "adduced by the fact," "deduced from," "from thence," "frequent if not constant in these pages."
From Time Magazine Archive
In pleonasms, which are comparatively prevalent among the uneducated, the same essential structure is seen; as, for instance, in—"The men, they were there."
From The Philosophy of Style by Spencer, Herbert
They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies, awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words.
From Charmides by Jowett, Benjamin
I do not see the impropriety of verbal question; such pleonasms are common.
From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur
Vocabulary lists containing pleonasm
Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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