Meanings of pleonasm in inglés

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

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm.

One of them says of him with injurious pleonasm, that he "talked too much with his mouth."

My hope was therefore great when I saw, in reading the Greek, that the shifting of a period would rid me of the pleonasm.

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

PLEONASM, n. An army of words escorting a corporal of thought.

But the above examples are arranged either by Pleonasm or by some such like artifice.

They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies, awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words.

Among the figures Pleonasm is sometimes used for the sake of the metre; as in (I. xix.

Keep watch especially against pleonasms.

Pleonasm is the rhetorical term for the use of more than one word where one word would be more than enough.

"A drunken Englishman," followed the magistrate, "What a pleonasm!"

("He is so nervous that he is committing a pleonasm," said Felicien in an aside to Lousteau.)

In pleonasms, which are comparatively prevalent among the uneducated, the same essential structure is seen; as, for instance, in-"Themen, they were there."

Evans takes aim in his book at monologophobia (the fear of using the same word twice in sentence) pleonasms (unnecessary words) and misusing words.

"And, mamma," suddenly and acutely sensitive to pleonasm, "you begin every sentence with 'say' and you say 'certainly' so often."