What does pleonasm mean?
Pleonasm means (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording..
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/ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/ · noun
(uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording..
St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.
Indeed, pleonasm, the use of superfluous or redundant words, is only part of the broader features of that style, the expressions of which have been so thoroughly analyzed by Franz Neirynck² and which for convenience will here be referred to as "dualisms."
My salvation is in my Saviour who saveth me hence the redundancy and pleonasm of my asseveration.
Use pleonasm when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pleonasm means (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording..
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St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.
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