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Definition of Pleonasm
1. Noun. Using more words than necessary. "A tiny little child"
Definition of Pleonasm
1. n. Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
Definition of Pleonasm
1. Noun. (uncountable rhetoric) Redundancy in wording. ¹
2. Noun. A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleonasm
1. the use of needless words [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pleonasm
1. Excess in number or size of parts. Origin: G. Pleonasmos, exaggeration, excessive, fr. Pleion, more (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleonasm
Literary usage of Pleonasm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek: Regarded as the Basis of by Georg Benedikt Winer, William Fiddian Moulton (1870)
"Hence pleonasm would naturally consist in the use of a word the notion of which
... As however it is altogether absurd to talk of a pleonasm of the definite ..."
2. The Philosophy of Rhetoric by George Campbell (1841)
"It may not be improper here to remark, that every word that is accounted an
expletive, doth not always constitute a pleonasm. For example, the do and the ..."
3. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"pleonasm.—pleonasm can take place with adjectives only in the expression of the
degrees of ... And this pleonasm really occurs— The more serener spirit. ..."
4. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language by Isaac Nordheimer (1841)
"pleonasm, the opposite of ellipsis, is a figure which results from the ...
The most common kind of pleonasm is the repetition of a subject or object by ..."
5. Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing by Richard Green Parker (1863)
"The professor was a professor of religion. T expect that you have no reason to
expect the arrival of your friend.* XXII. pleonasm ..."
6. A Grammar of the Latin Language by Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1855)
"pleonasm. the other the relation of a genitive or an adjective. ... pleonasm is
that mode of expression in which several words of the same or similar ..."
7. An Improved French Grammar: Containing a New Method of Discovering the by John B. Ricord Madianna (1812)
"NB The pleonasm is a defect only when it is entirely useless MS to the ...
In the following examples llie pleonasm is a defect: je vais alter le voir, ..."
8. A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek: Regarded as the Basis of by Georg Benedikt Winer, William Fiddian Moulton (1870)
"Hence pleonasm would naturally consist in the use of a word the notion of which
... As however it is altogether absurd to talk of a pleonasm of the definite ..."
9. The Philosophy of Rhetoric by George Campbell (1841)
"It may not be improper here to remark, that every word that is accounted an
expletive, doth not always constitute a pleonasm. For example, the do and the ..."
10. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"pleonasm.—pleonasm can take place with adjectives only in the expression of the
degrees of ... And this pleonasm really occurs— The more serener spirit. ..."
11. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language by Isaac Nordheimer (1841)
"pleonasm, the opposite of ellipsis, is a figure which results from the ...
The most common kind of pleonasm is the repetition of a subject or object by ..."
12. Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing by Richard Green Parker (1863)
"The professor was a professor of religion. T expect that you have no reason to
expect the arrival of your friend.* XXII. pleonasm ..."
13. A Grammar of the Latin Language by Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1855)
"pleonasm. the other the relation of a genitive or an adjective. ... pleonasm is
that mode of expression in which several words of the same or similar ..."
14. An Improved French Grammar: Containing a New Method of Discovering the by John B. Ricord Madianna (1812)
"NB The pleonasm is a defect only when it is entirely useless MS to the ...
In the following examples llie pleonasm is a defect: je vais alter le voir, ..."
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