redundantlyadv.
/rᵻˈdʌnd(ə)ntli/, U.S. /rəˈdənd(ə)n(t)li/, /riˈdənd(ə)n(t)li/ In a redundant manner.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adverb]
enoughOE
roomOE
largely?c1225
rifec1225
foison13..
rivedlyc1300
plenteously1340
plentily1340
fulsomelya1375
abundantlya1382
plenteousc1390
aboundinglyc1400
plentifullyc1400
copiously1447
abundanta1450
amply1454
substantiously1507
fatly?1521
largea1522
plentiful1563
heartily?1577
locupletely1599
redundantly1615
mainly1618
showeringly1621
rifely1648
profusively1650
galore1675
prolifically1735
wholesale1762
copious1791
aplenty1830
plenty1842
swimming1887
1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 34 Others redundantly haue two tongues, dissemblers, hypocrites.
1680 G. Dalgarno Didascalocophus 17 The one is still running the same round,..hearing the same words redundantly.
1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 27 May in Wks. (1955) VII. 284 Façade of the Jesuites' church ornamented but not redundantly.
1783 W. Mason tr. C. A. Dufresnoy Art of Painting 768 Yet more than these to meditation's eyes, Great Nature's self redundantly supplies.
1878 H. James Europeans vi It was, moreover, a much more modern dwelling than Mr. Wentworth's, and was more redundantly upholstered and expensively ornamented.
1934 Jrnl. Philos. 31 70 This distinction..permits us to speak (although again redundantly) of the smelling of a smell, the seeing of a color, the sensing of a sensation.
1979 Trans. Philol. Soc. 66 Any formal characterization of gender through adjective or determiner formatives is redundantly linked to lack of plurality.
2000 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 17 Nov. 20 ‘What have we here?’ I asked, somewhat redundantly as it was obvious to the entire street what had happened.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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