1645 D. Cawdrey Sabbatum Redivivum i. xi. 235 Though we must of necessity say over some of those things we have spoken already;..yet we rather choose to doe so, (though some should call it tautologizing) than for want of a formall setting our selves against those fallacious Principles.

1678 J. Barret Much in Little 3 You accuse me of continual tautologizing.

1702 M. Hole Antidote against Infidelity 89 To prevent perpetual tautologizing.

1859 Colburn's United Service Mag. Jan. 120 The grave literary offence of tautologizing, which could not be wholly avoided in the matter embraced by the topics under discussion.

1971 Midwest Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 15 188 A little tautologizing at this point can be instructive.

1998 L. Stubenberg Consciousness & Qualia viii. 191 It is what allows him to explain consciousness..without falling into a circle and without tautologizing.

1625 R. Jenison Christians apparelling by Christ i. §15. 79 Then should Iudas be saued, and tautologizing Papists be saued.

1690 J. Phillips tr. Plutarch Garrulity in M. Morgan et al. tr. Plutarch Morals IV. 258 The Tautologizing Babler is every where Drunk... If he be a Physician, certainly..is more troublesome then the Disease.

1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) 113 Long winded, tautologizing Sermons.

1794 J. Tytler Paine's Age of Reason 13 Here our author begins in his tautologizing manner, repeating..the argument he had used twice before.

1978 Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 32 54 Such vain tautologizing prophylactic maneuvers cannot protect CTG from potential falsifiability by appropriate empirical findings.

1995 G. A. Cohen Self-ownership, Freedom, & Equality 171 Under the original definition of exchange-value, virgin land would possess some, but it loses it under the tautologizing redefinition.