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- noun Plural form of
redundance .
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Examples
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Then is the right season for pruning redundances; for weighing the arrangement of sentences; for attending to the junctures and connecting particles; and bringing style into a regular, correct, and supported form.
Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Charles Raymond Barrett
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He then reads over what he has written, and on the vacant half-page supplies defects, strikes out redundances, indicates the needless qualification, and modifies expressions.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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First of all, the science of jurisprudence, the pride of the human intellect, which, with all its defects, redundances, and errors, is the collected reason of ages, combining the principles of original justice with the infinite variety of human concerns, would be no longer studied.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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These facts, stripped of the redundances with which I have garnished them, were told Fritzing on the day after his arrival at Baker's Farm by Mr.. Pearce the younger, old Mr. Pearce's daughter-in-law, a dreary woman with a rent in her apron, who brought in the bacon for Fritzing's solitary breakfast and the chop for his solitary luncheon.
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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It is essentially her own, without any material alteration farther than was requisite to exclude redundances and gross grammatical errors, so as to render it clearly intelligible.
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He improved his Pleasures of the Imagination in the subsequent editions, by pruning away a great many redundances of style and ornament.
Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804
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But whoever reflects at all, will easily discern how carefully this enthusiasm is to be directed, and how judiciously its redundances are to be lopped away.
Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies Hannah More 1789
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On the present occasion, therefore, it has been endeavoured to lop off as many of its redundances as could be conveniently done without injury, yet leaving every circumstance of any interest or importance.
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The third is to employ hands for the exportation of the redundance of our own commodities, and to exchange them with the redundances of foreign nations, that thus every soil and every climate may enjoy the fruits of the whole earth.
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding 1730
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Where/when item was found: Not unless there a sudden spate of redundances
Army Rumour Service 2009
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