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pleonasm

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noun

  1. using more words than necessary

Examples

The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm.

He doesn't say how long ‘lengthy’ is, but as ‘a lengthy sermon’ is a pleonasm, and as he's too good a writer to commit such an atrocity, one suspects pretty long.

Ce livre, L'Univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown.

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