Pleonasm is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 477 anagrams from letters in pleonasm (aelmnops).
1580-90; Late Latin pleonasmus Greek pleonasmós redundancy, surplus, derivative of pleonázein to be or have more than enough, itself derivative of pleíōn more (see pleo-<
But the above examples are arranged either by pleonasm or by some such like artifice.
What is pleonasm in a single sentence is ellipsis in a double one.
Let the word come after the gesture and there will be no pleonasm.
"He is so nervous that he is committing a pleonasm," said Felicien in an aside to Lousteau.
The pleonasm is explained by the divergence of French and ME.
We have spoken of "true worship;" the expression is a pleonasm.
Ignorance of the true meaning of a word often leads to pleonasm.
These are instances of pleonasm in the strictest sense of the term.
What is pleonasm in a single sentence, is ellipsis in a double one.
Nothing is gained in strength nor precision by this kind of pleonasm.
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