pleonasm
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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
It must express the idea better and in another way, else it will be only a pleonasm, an after conception of bad taste, a hindrance rather than an aid to intelligible expression.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
If we say the full phrase is, "All things whatsoever he doeth, shall prosper;" this presents, to an English ear, a still more obvious pleonasm.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
If we say that it is the science of the spirit, we indulge in a useless pleonasm.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
Vocabulary lists containing pleonasm
Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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