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pleonastic, a.|pliːəˈnæstɪk|
[f. Gr. type *πλεοναστικ-ός, f. πλεοναστ-ός: see prec. So F. pléonastique.]
a. Gram. Characterized by pleonasm; using more words than are necessary (as a sentence, a speaker, or writer); constituting pleonasm, superfluous, redundant (as a word or phrase).
1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah (ed. 12) Notes 390 A pleonastic pronoun. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 11 Μη..not; after verbs of contradicting, or denying, it is pleonastic. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 519 note, A mere pleonastic phrase for ‘in the direction of the sea’. 1898H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. II. 54 The pleonastic genitive, as in he is a friend of my brother's, is generally partitive = ‘one of the friends of my brother’. 1947[see interlinguistics]. 1951E. H. Sturtevant Compar. Gram. Hittite Lang. (ed. 2) ii. 23 Pleonastic Vowels. In Akkadian, vowels are frequently written double (U-UL ‘not’, BEE-EL ‘lord’). 1972W. Labov Language in Inner City iv. 146 The general nonstandard rule which operates here can be written as a simple pleonastic transformation.
b. gen. or fig. Done to excess or superfluity.
1876E. Mellor Priesth. iv. 164 If..the priests who both eat the wafer and drink the cup have not two full and perfect sacraments..if they have and derive any benefit from such a pleonastic sacrament. 1894A. Birrell Ess. xvi. 177 His bonâ-fide character..has been roughly condemned as pleonastic.
So † pleoˈnastical a. = prec.; pleoˈnastically adv., in a pleonastic manner, with pleonasm.
1653Ashwell Fides Apost. 17 They esteemed it essentiall to these, but pleonasticall unto those. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 187, 1 Joh. i. i, We have seen with our eyes... These Pleonastical inculcations are not vain, but serve to work things the better upon our hard hearts. 1725Blackwall Sacr. Classics (1727) I. 142 The noblest classics use this particle pleonastically. 1881St. James's Gaz. 1 Apr. 11 People who are ignorant of the good old word ‘mere’ have taken to talking pleonastically of Windermere Lake. |