pleonastic

1 Culicerto remarks that in their relationship, both sets of parents ask the couple out to meals, showing an example of a pleonastic - or redundant - pronoun: “Both sides, they always ask.”

2 It is formed by the addition of the Prakrit pleonastic suffix -illa-, which was not used by the Prakrit of the Midland, but was common elsewhere.

3 This pleonastic use of a conjunction with the relative is common among illiterate writers and speakers to-day.

4 The phrase "zephyr breeze," in the opening stanza, strikes us as a trifle pleonastic; since a zephyr is itself a breeze; not a quality of a breeze.

5 F. 87 The translation here is somewhat pleonastic for the sake of perspicuity; the original is clear in itself, but not to us who have no such practice.

6 The verb do, in I do speak, is not pleonastic.

7 Even to this rule there are exceptions, and one of these is in the case of a tarn which I shall call, pleonastically, Little Loch Beg.

8 Johnson's emendation, though pleonastic, makes least change upon the text of the Folios.

9 Associated word: librettist. wordy, a. diffuse, prolix, verbose, redundant, pleonastic.

10 The expression in our liturgy, for Jesus Christ his sake, which is merely a pleonastic one, is the only foundation for this assertion.

11 If we will have it to be, "Whatsoever things he doeth, they shall prosper;" the pronoun they appears to be pleonastic.

12 We have, therefore, to trace the rise and development of what may be forcibly expressed by the apparently pleonastic phrase human ecclesiasticism.

13 Your report is too pleonastic.

你的报告太罗嗦了。

14 Without the mellifluous elocution of a Cicero—free from pleonastic parade—he spoke forcibly, reasoned closely, demonstrated clearly, deduced conclusively.

15 My banks, they are furnished,—the most straitest sect,—these are pleonastic expressions.

16 Pleonasm in the syntax of pronouns.—In the following sentences the words in italics are pleonastic: 1.

17 Certainly the strenuous son of Menoetius is quite dead,— for the word "quite" is pleonastic after the Attic fashion.

18 The same idea is represented by the pleonastic Eng. messmate, the second part of which, mate, is related to meat.

19 The title’s pleonastic fourth word is the giveaway.

20 Such modern forms made with one pleonastic suffix are called “strong forms,” while those made without it are called “weak forms.”

1 冗赘的

copious diffusive

2 冗长

wordish long endless lengthy mortal redundant diffuse tiring tiresome verbose long-winded interminable prolix longwinded periphrastic lengthily prolixly verboseness redundancy verbiage verbosity wordiness prolixity wordage verbalism lengthiness

3 冗长的

wordish long endless lengthy mortal redundant diffuse tiring tiresome verbose long-winded interminable prolix longwinded periphrastic

4 冗赘

copious diffusive verbosely verbiage pleonasm wordage verbalism