Usage of "tautology" | TermGallery

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tautologia

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tautología

Common rule of replacement in propositional logic.

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theorem

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Statement which repeats the same idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words, or phrases.

pleonasm

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stylistic device

тавтология

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Examples for "pleonasm"

pleonasm

Examples for "pleonasm"

This consideration will remove the supposed pleonasm in the Saxon phrase, which is here literally translated. 
 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. 
 Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ed... 

One of them says of him with injurious pleonasm, that he "talked too much with his mouth." 
 Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 

My hope was therefore great when I saw, in reading the Greek, that the shifting of a period would rid me of the pleonasm. 
 Unspoken Sermons, Series I., II., and III. 

The most vigorous writers are liable, in unguarded moments, to lapse into verbal weakness, and so you meet with this vulgar pleonasm in Ruskin. 
 Essays Æsthetical 

Usage of tautology in English

He utterly despised the avoidance of repetitions out of fear of tautology. 
 My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) 

No tautology is to be found and no attempt at ornate expression. 
 The Constitution of the United States / A Brief Study of the Gen... 

But they are by no means tautology or useless and aimless repetition. 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark 

Necessity is the mother of all necessary things, to coin a tautology. 
 The Vital Abyss 

Is that heaping together of synonyms or all but synonyms, mere tautology? 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter... 

Is it a tautology, or are the two terms very different? 
 The Irish Times 

There is scarcely any harm in curtailing the frequent tautology of this chapter. 
 Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I 

Indeed, one overruns the line of tautology in distinguishing between wealth and power. 
 Great Fortunes from Railroads 

The highest message of Mahomet is a piece of divine tautology. 
 The New Jerusalem 

Another quality in which modern are superior to ancient languages is freedom from tautology. 
 Cratylus 

The battles of the ocean have the same sublime tautology as the combats of Homer. 
 The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History 

The following extract exhibits examples of tautology and lengthiness. 
 How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition 

These days, the construction "political correctness gone mad" is something of a tautology. 
 The Irish Times 

Others claim the anthropic principle is an irritating tautology and not a scientific principle at all. 
 The Irish Times 

In a way, that is almost a tautology. 
 The Guardian 

The copiousness of her vocabulary of abuse surprised herself, and she did not shrink from tautology. 
 Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel 