单词 | pleonasm |
例句 | Technically speaking, that expression is a pleonasm—a redundant description—since all facts are, by definition, true. The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2018 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z To call it 'the will to live' is therefore a pleonasm. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Our attention is called to its "unique transcendence"—which is a penny-a-lining pleonasm. The Book Of God In The Light Of The Higher Criticism 2011-11-24T03:00:46.897Z If we say that it is the science of the spirit, we indulge in a useless pleonasm. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z We have had pleonasm without fullness, and facility without force. Coelebs In Search of a Wife They plainly declare that the "New Criticis" rests on "utterly baseless foundations"—which is a curious pleonasm or tautology for a body of "educated" gentlemen. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) "I saw it with my eyes" is a pleonasm; "all the members agreed unanimously" is tautology. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions And this pleonasm really occurs— The more serener spirit. A Handbook of the English Language This is implied in the omitted words, which Mr. Reddie—whose omission would have been dishonest if he had seen their meaning—no doubt took for pleonasm, superfluity, overmuchness. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Redundancy or pleonasm is the use of more words than are necessary to express the thought clearly. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. The term, Marsh Marigold, is a pleonasm for Marigold, which means of itself the Marsh Gowl or Marsh Golden Flower, being an abbreviation of the old Saxon mear-gealla. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure I do not see the impropriety of verbal question; such pleonasms are common. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies These are instances of pleonasm in the strictest sense of the term. A Handbook of the English Language There was a certain pleonasm about this phrasing that revealed the hand of the chairman: the simple statement must be reinforced both for legal security and for rhetorical effect. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics To lean is a neuter verb, and 'seizing on' is not properly to be called a pleonasm, merely because it is—nothing at all. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 The most vigorous writers are liable, in unguarded moments, to lapse into verbal weakness, and so you meet with this vulgar pleonasm in Ruskin. Essays Æsthetical Nothing is gained in strength nor precision by this kind of pleonasm. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults The preceding examples illustrate an apparent paradox, viz., the fact of pleonasm and ellipsis being closely allied. A Handbook of the English Language Let the word come after the gesture and there will be no pleonasm. Delsarte System of Oratory The body of the poem was written by Nahum Tate, one of those second-rate bards, who, by dint of pleonasm and expletive can find smooth lines if any one will supply them with ideas. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author If we say the full phrase is, "All things whatsoever he doeth, shall prosper;" this presents, to an English ear, a still more obvious pleonasm. The Grammar of English Grammars The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education What is pleonasm in a single sentence is ellipsis in a double one. A Handbook of the English Language It must express the idea better and in another way, else it will be only a pleonasm, an after conception of bad taste, a hindrance rather than an aid to intelligible expression. Delsarte System of Oratory This consideration will remove the supposed pleonasm in the Saxon phrase, which is here literally translated. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle "And, mamma," suddenly and acutely sensitive to pleonasm, "you begin every sentence with 'say' and you say 'certainly' so often." Star-Dust My hope was therefore great when I saw, in reading the Greek, that the shifting of a period would rid me of the pleonasm. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. It is true that one sickens at hearing her talk; she pulls Vaugelas to pieces, and the least defects of her gross intellect are either pleonasm or cacophony. The Learned Women All religion is revealed;— revealed religion is, in my judgment, a mere pleonasm. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge To say, that I keep it alone, separate from the rest, is a pleonasm which scarcely any nicety declines. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies It will be seen, by reference to the exemplifications of the dialect, that occasional pleonasm will be found in it, as well as, very often, extraordinary contraction. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire It bears the name of Pietra-Sasso—the explanation of this odd pleonasm being, I suppose, that here the whole mass of rock, generally decked with grass or shrubs, is as bare as any single stone. Old Calabria Rod and staff simply call attention to the objects before anything is said of them, and are independent by pleonasm—a construction used sometimes for rhetorical effect, but out of place in ordinary speech. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition I can never too often repeat, that revealed religion is a pleonasm.—Religion is revelation, and revelation the only religion. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. It is a pleonasm to inscribe on any order for distinguished service; for every order ought to be for distinguished service. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life One of them says of him with injurious pleonasm, that he "talked too much with his mouth." Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 We have spoken of the annoying tendency to pleonasm in Lucian's style, which must be laid at the door of rhetoric. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 His object was, under the fiction of an independent multitude, to smuggle in a virtual unity; for his court physicians are no plural body in effect and virtue, but a mere pleonasm and a tautology. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 In pleonasms, which are comparatively prevalent among the uneducated, the same essential structure is seen; as, for instance, in—"The men, they were there." The Philosophy of Style "A drunken Englishman," followed the magistrate, "What a pleonasm!" The Life of Sir Richard Burton They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies, awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words. Charmides |
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