Definition of Pleonesm
Ple"o*nasm, (&?;), n. [L.
pleonasmus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to be more than enough, to abound,
fr.&?;, neut. of &?;, more, compar. of &?; much. See Full, a.,
and cf. Poly-, Plus.] (Rhet.) Redundancy of
language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are
necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own
eyes.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- (uncountable) Redundancy in wording.
- (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
"They are both the same" is a pleonasm as the word "both" is redundant.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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