tautology

How To Use tautology In A Sentence

• Care should be exercised in wording the sections providing for amending the constitution, etc., to avoid such tautology as ”amend, or add to, or repeal, ” or ”alter or amend, ” or ”amend or in any way change. 11. Miscellaneous. 68. Amendments of Constitutions, By-laws, and Rules of Order
• This unmanly dread of simplicity, and of what is called "tautology," gives rise to a patchwork made up of scraps of poetic quotations, unmeaning periphrases, and would-be humorous circumlocutions, -- a style of all styles perhaps the most objectionable and offensive, which may be known and avoided by the name of _Fine Writing_. How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition
• Incidentally, white jasmine is a tautology in the Indian context.
• But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology ? THE DISPOSSESSED
• The statement & quot ; He is brave or he is not brave & quot ; is a tautology.
• To me it was immediately apparent, a tautology, a verbal redundancy.
• to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology
• Vain repetitions -- tautology, battology, idle babbling over the same words again and again to no purpose, like Battus, Sub illis montibus erant, erant sub montibus illis; like that imitation of the wordiness of a fool, Eccl. x. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
• Implication tautology is not reasoning form.
• A title whose seeming tautology made it clear that she was primarily interested in poetry.