单词 | battology |
释义 | battologyn. A needless and tiresome repetition in speaking or writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > repetition > needless repetition tautology1555 battologya1603 battism1617 tautologizing1645 overbeating1659 tautologism1817 a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 142 The Marginall notes..are meere Battologies of loathsome repetitions. 1765 A. Tucker Light of Nature II. 440 We are warned against the battology or vain repetitions of the heathens. 1818 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 19 96 Away then with..the battology of statistics. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1603 |
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