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What does pleonasm mean?

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Noun
  1. (rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
  2. (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant, as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
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The phrase appears to make use of a deliberate rhetorical device known as pleonasm, a crafted redundancy that plays out the search for the most fitting expression.
However, this would be a pleonasm, since all higher functions are cerebral.
Let the word come after the gesture and there will be no pleonasm.
The word 'interpretation' is often used in such a way that 'admissible interpretation' is a pleonasm.
The evocation of ecological linoleum is just a beautiful pleonasm because linoleum is ecological by nature.
But the above examples are arranged either by pleonasm or by some such like artifice.

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