pleonasm
81pleonastic — See pleonasm. * * * …
82pelə- — I. pelə 1 To fill; with derivatives referring to abundance and multitude. Oldest form *pelə₁ ; variant *pleə₁ , contracted to *plē . Derivatives include fill, plenty, folk, accomplish, expletive, and plebeian. I. Zero gra …
83Pange Lingua Gloriosi — • Article on the two hymns of this name. The second is by Thomas Aquinas. The first is generally credited to Venantius Fortunatus, though some believe it is the work of Claudianus Mamertus Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pange Lingua… …
84Sanctifying Grace — • Treatise on this fundamental building block of Christianity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sanctifying Grace Sanctifying Grace …
85pleonastic — adjective a) Of, or relating to pleonasm. b) Using an excessive number of words; especially using different words having the same meaning. Syn: redundant …
86redundancy — I noun duplication, excess, excessiveness, immoderation, inordinacy, inordinate amount, needlessness, nimiety, overplus, oversupply, pleonasm, recurrence, redundance, redundantia, reiteration, repetition, restatement, retelling, superabundance,… …
87Natural-born-citizen clause of the U.S. Constitution — Part of the constitutional provision as it appeared in 1787 Status as a natural born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Constitution for election to the office of President or Vice …
88Verbosity — This article is about linguistic verbosity. For prolixity, a character in the BBC education programme, see Look and Read. Verbosity (also called wordiness, prolixity and garrulousness) in language refers to speech or writing which is deemed to… …
89tautology — I noun battology, duplication, loquacity, pleonasm, profuseness, redundancy, repetition, superfluousness, surfeit, verbiage, verbosity II index redundancy Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
90Locke’s political theory — Ian Harris The author of Two Treatises of Government also wrote An Essay concerning Human Understanding. This is an elementary fact, but one with an important implication for understanding Locke’s political theory. For Two Treatises is an… …
