tautologouslyadv.
/tɔːˈtɒləɡəsli/, U.S. /tɔˈtɑləɡəsli/, /tɑˈtɑləɡəsli/ = tautologically adv.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adverb] > repeatedly > with needless repetition
tautologically1620
tautologously1646
1646 T. Lushington Crell's Expiation of Sinner i. 5 We are not to understand that dominion or dignity of Christ, whereby he reignes with his Father in absolute power; for this were to argue tautologously [L. Nam haec Autoris D. comparatio videretur esse tautologica], seeing he mentioned that before.
1792 Trials at Large T. Hardy 167 Nothing could be so curiously and tautologously laboured, as this commentary of Lord Coke upon this single word in the statute.
1865 J. P. Collier Bibliogr. & Crit. Acct. Rarest Bks. Eng. Lang. I. 109 It begins thus tautologously: ‘The present plagues that now we fele’.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 3/2 ‘Fraud-pilfered’—the indictment is tautologously complete.
1982 Kenyon Rev. 4 2 We will be in danger of replying tautologously that since the untranslatable is untranslatable, only the translatable can be translated.
2007 D. Nobbs Pratt à Manger 42 ‘Today we welcome two debutants, two debutants who are making their very first appearance on the show,’ he added tautologously.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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