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
The body of the poem was written by Nahum Tate, one of those second-rate bards, who, by dint of pleonasm and expletive can find smooth lines if any one will supply them with ideas.
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
Buah pala, the Malay phrase for the “nutmeg,” is in strictness a pleonasm, for phala signifies “fruit” in Sanskrit, as buah does in Malay.
From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Sir William Edward Maxwell
To lean is a neuter verb, and 'seizing on' is not properly to be called a pleonasm, merely because it is—nothing at all.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 by Various
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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