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pleonastic

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Do you fear to quote the sublimated utterances of the perspicacious, although pleonastic philosopher?

Soke means jurisdiction and sake and soke is but a pleonastic phrase, which means no more than soke.

My banks, they are furnished,—the most straitest sect,—these are pleonastic expressions.

Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.

The other pleonastic suffixes mentioned under Prakrit are also employed in Marathi, but usually with specific senses.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pleonastic, such as: bombastic, chatty, diffuse, discursive, flatulent, and gabby.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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