单词 | tautologic |
释义 | tautologicadj. = tautological adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > repetitious > needlessly repetitious tautological1620 tautologous1646 tautologic1763 1763 Triumph of Brutes 10 From St. John's Gate lead Mr. Urban next, Permitted not a tautologic text. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 906 Dr. Johnson..he charges..with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. v. 212 No end of florid inflated tautologic ornamental balderdash. 1896 Sporting Times 29 Feb. 6/2 It would be well for him to cut down the would-be pathos..on the first night it appeared tediously redundant and tautologic. 1965 Speculum 40 40 Although tending to be tautologic, the sermons afford a valuable insight into the religious history. 2007 Yale Law Jrnl. 116 896 Some courts recognize the tautologic trap here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1763 |
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