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Redundancy or pleonasm is the use of more words than are necessary to express the thought clearly.
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The preceding examples illustrate an apparent paradox, viz., the fact of pleonasm and ellipsis being closely allied.
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Accompany her among her female friends and female enemies (if that is no pleonasm), and look at her!
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We have spoken of "true worship;" the expression is a pleonasm.
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The pleonasm is explained by the divergence of French and ME.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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