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21wordy — wordily, adv. wordiness, n. /werr dee/, adj., wordier, wordiest. 1. characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply. 2. pertaining to or consisting of words; verbal. [bef. 1100; ME; …
22tautologic — adjective repetition of same sense in different words a true fact and a free gift are pleonastic expressions the phrase a beginner who has just started is tautological at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition J.B.Conant… …
23tautological — adjective repetition of same sense in different words a true fact and a free gift are pleonastic expressions the phrase a beginner who has just started is tautological at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition J.B.Conant… …
24Alan Musgrave — (born c.1940) is a New Zealand Philosopher. He was the Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Otago from 1970 to 2005. [cite web|url=http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/Staff/alan musgrave.html|title=Otago Philosophy Alan… …
25verbose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wordy, prolix, repetitive, talkative. See diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. wordy, prolix, tedious, tautologous, redundant, repetitious, circumlocutory, repetitive, periphrastic, abounding in …
26An — An, conj. [Shortened fr. and, OE. an., and, sometimes and if, in introducing conditional clauses, like Icel. enda if, the same word as and. Prob. and was originally pleonastic before the conditional clause.] If; a word used by old English authors …
27An if — An An, conj. [Shortened fr. and, OE. an., and, sometimes and if, in introducing conditional clauses, like Icel. enda if, the same word as and. Prob. and was originally pleonastic before the conditional clause.] If; a word used by old English… …
28Pleonastically — Ple o*nas tic*al*ly, adv. In a pleonastic manner. [1913 Webster] …
29Redundant — Re*dun dant ( dant), a. [L. redundans, antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See {Redound}.] 1. Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. [1913 Webster] Notwithstanding the …
30Thence — Thence, adv. [OE. thenne, thanne, and (with the adverbal s; see { wards}) thennes, thannes (hence thens, now written thence), AS. [eth]anon, [eth]anan, [eth]onan; akin to OHG. dannana, dann[=a]n, dan[=a]n, and G. von dannen, E. that, there. See… …
