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Definition of Pleonasms
1. pleonasm [n] - See also: pleonasm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleonasms
Literary usage of Pleonasms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parallel Extracts Arranged for Translation Into English and Latin, with by John Edwin Nixon (1876)
"The practice, common in many English pleonasms, authors, of giving each substantive
its epithet, or grouping substantives, adjectives, or verbs in couples, ..."
2. A commentary on the Greek text of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians by John Eadie (1883)
"... phrases, parentheses, digressions, and pleonasms, and an indefinite un-Pauline
colour and complexion, both in doctrine and diction. ..."
3. Parallel Extracts Arranged for Translation Into English and Latin, with by John Edwin Nixon (1876)
"The practice, common in many English pleonasms, authors, of giving each substantive
its epithet, or grouping substantives, adjectives, or verbs in couples, ..."
4. A commentary on the Greek text of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians by John Eadie (1883)
"... phrases, parentheses, digressions, and pleonasms, and an indefinite un-Pauline
colour and complexion, both in doctrine and diction. ..."
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