pleonasm 的定义
- the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.
- an instance of this, as free gift or true fact.
- a redundant word or expression.
pleonasm 近义词
wordiness
更多pleonasm例句
- Redundancy or pleonasm is the use of more words than are necessary to express the thought clearly.
- The preceding examples illustrate an apparent paradox, viz., the fact of pleonasm and ellipsis being closely allied.
- Accompany her among her female friends and female enemies (if that is no pleonasm), and look at her!
- We have spoken of "true worship;" the expression is a pleonasm.
- The pleonasm is explained by the divergence of French and ME.