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单词 pleonastically
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pleonasticallyadv.

Brit. /ˌplɪəˈnastᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌpliəˈnæstək(ə)li/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pleonastical adj., -ly suffix2, pleonastic adj., -ally suffix.
Etymology: Originally < pleonastical adj. + -ly suffix2; in later use probably also < pleonastic adj. + -ally suffix.
In a pleonastic manner; with pleonasm; superfluously, redundantly.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > pleonastically
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1725 A. Blackwall Sacred Classics I. i. ii. 118 The noblest Classics use this particle pleonastically.
1855–6 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 5 155 It is a universal practice to use pleonastically the suffix pronoun, followed immediately by the noun to which it refers.
1881 St. James's Gaz. 1 Apr. 11 People who are ignorant of the good old word ‘mere’ have taken to talking pleonastically of Windermere Lake.
1925 Classical Philol. 20 304 In similar examples the preposition is often repeated pleonastically.
2000 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 11 Dec. 15 No such difficulties ever arose, after all, in the quaintly and pleonastically named people's democracies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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