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from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pleonastic .
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- adjective
pleonastic
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Such pleonasms are ornative of speech, especially when they render the same thing more emphatically so, than if there were not that pleonastical addition.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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