Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pleonastic manner; with redundancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a pleonastic manner.
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- adverb In a
pleonastic manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rebecca, glorious heroine according to some admirers, "criminal, thief and murderess," as another admirer pleonastically describes her, is a sort of troll; nobody can explain -- and yet an explanation seems requisite -- what she does in the house of Rosmer.
Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888
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Reflexive objects often pleonastically accompany verbs of motion; cf.ll. 234, 301, 1964, etc.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Reflexive objects often pleonastically accompany verbs of motion; cf.ll. 234, 301, 1964, etc.
Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879
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Even to this rule there are exceptions, and one of these is in the case of a tarn which I shall call, pleonastically, Little Loch Beg.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
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'Na,' apparently an interrogative in origin, is used pleonastically on all occasions: 'You na go na steamer?'
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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"criminal, thief and murderess," as another admirer pleonastically describes her, is a sort of troll; nobody can explain — and yet an explanation seems requisite — what she does in the house of Rosmer.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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"criminal, thief and murderess," as another admirer pleonastically describes her, is a sort of troll; nobody can explain — and yet an explanation seems requisite — what she does in the house of Rosmer.
Henrik Ibsen 2008
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"Bakhshawángí," for Baghchawánjí, "where the same termination is pleonastically added to a Persian word, which in Persian and
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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