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pleonasms

pleonasms is the plural of pleonasm.

Meaning of pleonasm

Noun

pleonasm (countable and uncountable, plural pleonasms)

  1. (rhetoric, uncountable) Redundancy in wording.
    • St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.1939, John Nicholas Hritzu, The Style of the Letters of St. Jerome, Catholic University of America Press, page 5
  2. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.

Questions about pleonasms

What is pleonasms the plural of?
Pleonasms is the plural of pleonasm.

Words near pleonasms in the dictionary

  1. pleomorphy
  2. pleon
  3. pleonal
  4. pleonasm
  5. pleonasmic
  6. pleonasms
  7. pleonast
  8. pleonaste
  9. pleonastes
  10. pleonastic
  11. pleonastical

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