Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses more words than are needed; one given to redundancy in speech or writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare One who is addicted to pleonasm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun rare One who is addicted to
pleonasm , orredundancy in speech or writing.
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