tautologous

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And it has, in the course of that educational process, occurred to me that it does border on tautologous.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

As he argued, the term "comic novel" should be acknowledged as tautologous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

If this is so, then talk of the comic novel is tautologous.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2010

That tautologous definition turned out to be a label for De Gaulle's familiar vision of a loose assemblage of nationalist states.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he may be described as a simpler, a somewhat less harmonious, but a less tautologous Lamartine, to whom the gods were kind in allowing him to die young.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George