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单词 pleonasmus
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pleonasmusn.

Brit. /ˌpliːəˈnazməs/, U.S. /ˌpliəˈnæzməs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pleonasmus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin pleonasmus redundancy of expression (5th cent.) < ancient Greek πλεονασμός superabundance, excess, in Hellenistic Greek also (in grammar and rhetoric) use of redundant words, lengthening of clauses < πλεονάζειν to be superfluous or redundant, in Hellenistic Greek also (in grammar) to be added superfluously ( < πλέον (also πλεῖον ) more: see pleio- comb. form) + -μος , suffix forming nouns. Compare later pleonasm n. and the Romance parallels cited at that entry.
Grammar and Rhetoric.
= pleonasm n. 1.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > pleonasm
long language1521
pleonasmus1533
macrologya1538
perissology1583
pleonasm1610
1533 N. Udall Floures for Latine Spekynge f. 155 And in these wordes..is a figure of speakynge called pleonasmus, which is whan an oration hath any superfluitie of wordes more then nedeth.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N2, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Pleonasmus, where with wordes seeming superfluous, we doe encrease our reasons, as thus: With these eares I heard him speake it.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 6 (heading) Scriptural examples of pleonasmus.
1765 J. Swinton in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 131 A pleonasmus or redundancy of מ having not been antiently uncommon.
1787 G. Gregory tr. R. Lowth Lect. Sacred Poetry Hebrews I. 59 A pleonasmus peculiar to the Syriac.
1891 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 12 284 The Latin grammarians give a list of faults of style,..of which the following are noted by Servius, although not specifically as faults:..cacenphaton, pleonasmus, perissologia, [etc.].
1977 M. Cohen Sensible Words ii. 52 Since figures of speech like ellipsis and pleonasmus are syntactical features, such marks help identify them as well.
1989 B. Vickers In Def. of Rhetoric vi. 331 Pleonasmus, which other writers or periods would see as a vice of style.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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