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pleonasm
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pleonasm - Redundancy of expression; tautology.
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Freely punctuated by repetitions, revisions, ums, ahs, and tantalizing silences, Cruz's delivery frayed the novel's already pleonastic story lines to the point of incomprehensibility, mutating the text into the rambling sound track of a thought process or even an esoteric act of self-pleasuring.
Juan Cruz: Peer by Withers, Rachel / Artforum International
One encounters pleonastic use of the particle "or" in the writings of Plato and of the Greek orator Lysias (Liddell & Scott: 76 I).
Tongues and cymbals: Contextualizing 1 Corinthians 13:1 by Portier-Young, Anathea / Biblical Theology Bulletin
He compares pleonastic "do" forms in the Elegy with Shakespeare's texts, finding a marked preference for such locutions in the poem.
"Counterfeiting" Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's ... by Bevington, David / Renaissance Quarterly
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