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Definition of Pleonast
1. n. One who is addicted to pleonasm.
Definition of Pleonast
1. Noun. (rare) One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleonast
1. someone who is prone to redundancy [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleonast
Literary usage of Pleonast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"ON THE pleonast ... pleonast A question, by no means uninteresting, that naturally
... and these are met with in the places where the pleonast is found, ..."
2. Zeitschrift Für Kristallographie, Kristallgeometrie, Kristallphysik (1882)
"pleonast. Der Monte Capanne auf Elba, welcher aus Granit bestallt, ist von einer
Zone verschiedener unier dem gemeinschaftlichen Namen ..."
3. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"... with dark green pleonast occurs with ... with hornblende, pleonast and in some
varieties olivine. ..."
4. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Kre the mellifluous pleonast had done oiling his paradox with fresh polysyllables .
. he met with a curious interruption.—Reade, Hard Cash, ch. xxv. ..."
5. Chemische Mineralogie by Reinhard Brauns (1896)
"... bestimmte Krystalle und pleonast. Almandin aus dem Zillerthal zerfällt in
hexagonale, ... Krystalle und pleonast. ..."
6. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"ON THE pleonast ... pleonast A question, by no means uninteresting, that naturally
... and these are met with in the places where the pleonast is found, ..."
7. Zeitschrift Für Kristallographie, Kristallgeometrie, Kristallphysik (1882)
"pleonast. Der Monte Capanne auf Elba, welcher aus Granit bestallt, ist von einer
Zone verschiedener unier dem gemeinschaftlichen Namen ..."
8. Igneous Rocks: Composition, Texture and Classification, Description and by Joseph Paxson Iddings (1913)
"... with dark green pleonast occurs with ... with hornblende, pleonast and in some
varieties olivine. ..."
9. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Kre the mellifluous pleonast had done oiling his paradox with fresh polysyllables .
. he met with a curious interruption.—Reade, Hard Cash, ch. xxv. ..."
10. Chemische Mineralogie by Reinhard Brauns (1896)
"... bestimmte Krystalle und pleonast. Almandin aus dem Zillerthal zerfällt in
hexagonale, ... Krystalle und pleonast. ..."
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