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pleonasm (n.)
"redundancy in words," 1580s, from Late Latin
pleonasmus
, from Greek
pleonasmos
, from
pleonazein
"to be more than enough, to be superfluous," in grammatical use, "to add superfluously," from comb. form of
pleon
"more" (see
pleio-
).
