单词 | redundance |
释义 | redundancen. = redundancy n. (in various senses); esp. superfluity, excess; abundance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] > excess, redundancy, or superfluity un-i-fohOE surfeita1393 superfluitya1398 over-micklea1400 overmucha1400 nimiety1542 superfluous1552 redundance1572 overflowing1574 overflush1581 overflow1589 overmeasure1591 redundancy1601 a too-much1604 pleonasm1616 overfloat1619 overmuchnessa1637 supernumerariness1652 plusa1721 supervacaneousness1730 supersaturate1860 too-muchness1875 1572 J. Bridges in tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles To Rdr. sig. b.3 Origene tooke great paynes to correct the seauentie Translators, adding of his owne where he thought they were not full, and taking from them where he sawe redundance and superfluitie. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. A2v That's but to shew the redundance of thy honorable Familie, and how affluent and copious thy name is in all places. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum ii. v. 227* Redundance, or amplification, is, when either the same argument is repeated, or else some others are added to the principall parts. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. iv. 106 When there is a manifest redundance of bad humors and melancholy blood. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace ii. 42 If he gives even to redundance unto his enemies. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 176 Which some Philosophers not considering so well as I, have mistook to be different in their Causes, over-hastily assigning the first to Deficiency, and the other to Redundance. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 27 Loose flow'd the soft redundance of her hair. 1788 T. Reid Aristotle's Logic vi. §2. 144 A redundance rather than a defect of first principles. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance iii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 106 The other a man of atrabiliar aspect, with lank black hair, and a redundance of limp cravat. 1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. v. 47 Such redundance of power as will carry him through all his engagements with the most perfect ease. 1919 W. Lewis Caliph's Design ii. ii. 38 Life has begun,..with a crowding and redundance that must be ordered and curtailed if the powerfullest instincts..are to triumph. 1952 R. C. Hutchinson Recoll. of Journey viii. 182 Just as he had discarded every physical redundance, so he seemed to have left behind him all thought and feeling which were not intrinsic to his wisdom. 2004 C. Kendrick Utopia, Carnival, & Commonw. in Renaissance Eng. iii. 140 But Starkey complicates things further, and seems at points wilfully to introduce unnecessary redundance into his exposition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1572 |
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