单词 | tautologism |
释义 | tautologismn. 1. A phrase or expression which is tautological. Cf. tautology n. 2, tautology n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > repetition > instance of tautology1574 tautologism1628 1628 Field's Of Church (ed. 2) iii. App. 190 In the celebration of the holy mysteries, so many tautologismes and barbarismes are found, that ingenuous men abhorre from the celebration thereof. 1815 Sporting Mag. 46 117 Hard and callous, form a tautologism. 1892 D. B. McLachlan Reformed Logic xxxii. 176 ‘All men suffer, therefore some men suffer.’ ‘John is a man, therefore he is a living creature.’ ‘This weighs that down, therefore it is heavier.’ These are all obvious tautologisms. 1994 P. Wainwright Ecol. Morphol. 334 The term ‘obligate paedomorph’ is a tautologism. 2. The use of tautology; spec. †(with reference to Chinese speech) the practice of semantically distinguishing a word from its homophones by the additional use of another word of similar meaning (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > repetition > needless repetition tautology1555 battologya1603 battism1617 tautologizing1645 overbeating1659 tautologism1817 1817 J. Bentham Chrestomathia Pt. II 293 The reproach of tautologism,—incurred as it is by the observation. 1856 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 16 64 The expedients most characteristic of the Indo-Chinese tongues, namely, intonation and tautologism, cease to be requisite the moment that language becomes polysyllabic and flexible. 1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iv. 166 This chaos [of homophones in Chinese]..is reduced to order and meaning,..partly by what may be called tautologism, i.e. by using a second synonym to define the word which is vague; in point of fact, by making two vague words into one definite word. 1913 D. Ainslie tr. B. Croce Philos. of Pract. (1969) 443 We have not restricted ourselves to defining the ethical form as universal form, which would have resulted in tautologism. 2010 Slavic Rev. 69 325 Space, time, body, communication, and action in the siege all transform to follow the pattern of monotonous tautologism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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