pleonasm

Example Sentences

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Note he won’t shout loudly – that’s known as a pleonasm, when more words than necessary are used.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2019

The phrase 'think for one's self' is a pleonasm.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is implied in the omitted words, which Mr. Reddie—whose omission would have been dishonest if he had seen their meaning—no doubt took for pleonasm, superfluity, overmuchness.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

The most vigorous writers are liable, in unguarded moments, to lapse into verbal weakness, and so you meet with this vulgar pleonasm in Ruskin.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

These are instances of pleonasm in the strictest sense of the term.

From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)