Crossword-Solution: PLEONASMS
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| Redundancies | 1 answer |
| Redundant expressions often found in verbose writing | 1 answer |
| Redundant expressions, in grammar | 1 answer |
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One’s able to vote
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
LETRCOE
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with PLEONASMS (4)
They abound in obscurities, irrelevancies, solecisms, pleonasms, inconsistencies, awkwardnesses of construction, wrong uses of words.
Its figures of speech, pleonasms, ellipses, anacolutha, pros to semainomenon, and the like have no reality; they do not either make conscious expressions more intelligible or show the way in which they have arisen; they are chiefly designed to bring an earlier use of language into conformity with the later.
ISLANDS Ey, an island, [Footnote: Isle of Sheppey, Mersea Island, etc, are pleonasms.]survives as the last element of many names, and is not always to be distinguished from hey (hay, Settlements, Chapter III) and ley.
Other instances of pleonasms arising from syntactical contamination are: ‘He saw that _the reason why_ witchcraft was ridiculed was _because_ it was a phase of the miraculous, etc.’ (Lecky, History of Rationalism, vol.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2009–2016).