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Tautological

adjective
1.
Repetition of same sense in different words.  Synonyms: pleonastic, redundant, tautologic.  "The phrase 'a beginner who has just started' is tautological" , "At the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"





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"Tautological" Quotes from Famous Books



... show, that one of the priests performed or celebrated (halten, celebrare) eucharist, and administered the communion to the other priests and deacons." [Note 34] This specimen, like the first, would be purely tautological. ...
— American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics • Samuel Simon Schmucker
... from the guidance of any rule; and this, either because no rule has as yet been extended to the matter in question, or else because, if existing, it is unknown to the artist, or the critic, as the case may be. Instead of taste, we might use the expression aesthetic sense, if this were not tautological. ...
— The Art of Literature • Arthur Schopenhauer
... be omitted, as tautological[15] in English. Cf. our inexact idiom 'he promised to come' (Lat. 'that ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... telling them also to "Wake up!" A minister in Brunswick, Maine, thus pointedly wakened one of his sweet-sleeping church-attendants, a man of some dignity and standing in the community, and received the shocking and tautological answer, "Mind your own business, and go on with ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle


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