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What is the noun for pleonasms?

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pleonasm
  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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    1. “But the above examples are arranged either by pleonasm or by some such like artifice.”
      “He takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.”
      “Article 8, insofar as it is not specific to the subject being dealt with and involves a rule of common law, is a pleonasm.”
pleonast
  1. (rare) One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing.
pleonasms
pleonasts
  1. plural of pleonast
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