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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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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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.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2009–2016).