单词 | pleonasmus |
释义 | pleonasmusn. Grammar and Rhetoric. = pleonasm n. 1. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1533 |
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