tautologistn.
/tɔːˈtɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /tɔˈtɑlədʒəst/, /tɑˈtɑlədʒəst/ A person who uses, or is prone to, tautology; a person who repeats him or herself. Also in extended use.
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1690 A. Maynwaring King of Hearts (single sheet) The Faults.., and the Scribling Tribe; Do thou their great Tautologist transcribe.
1702 R. Steele Funeral i. 14 Oh! that Damn'd Tautologist [printed Tantologist] too—That [Mr.] Puzzle and his Irrevocable Deed!
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Tautologist, one who says the same Things over and over.
1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 649 All such literary tautologists are proper objects of epitomization.
1871 Ld. Shaftesbury Diary 20 Dec. in C. Dickens Lett. (2002) XII. 521/2 (note) The man was a phenomenon, a special production... Nature isn't such a tautologist as to make another follow him.
1904 H. D. Hoskold Official Rep. Mines Argentine Republic 417 The writer has, at the risk of being criticised as a tautologist, incorporated the analysis given in former chapters upon coal together with all the others which he considers to be of the most reliable and practical importance.
2001 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 23 Jan. 84 As the great sports commentator and noted tautologist Rex Mossop would say, ‘It's like deja vu all over again’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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