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Redundance

noun
1.
The attribute of being superfluous and unneeded.  Synonym: redundancy.






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"Redundance" Quotes from Famous Books



... once more quite frightened me. I endeavoured to appease him, by general promises of becoming more voluble - and I quite languished to say to him the truth at once; that his sport, his spirit, and his society would all be acceptable to me, would he but divest them of that redundance of -gallantry which rendered them offensive : but I could only think how to say this—I could not ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madam D'Arblay Volume 2 • Madame D'Arblay

... teach, that, "Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, and the nouns for which they stand, in gender, number, and person:" (Murray's Gr., 2d Ed., p. 111; Rev. T. Smith's, p. 60:) and further, with redundance of expression, that, "The relative is of the same person with the antecedent, and the verb agrees with it accordingly."—Same. These quotations form Murray's fifth rule of syntax, as it stands in his early editions.[196] In some of ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown



Words linked to "Redundance" :   embarrassment, overplus, deadwood, redundancy, plethora, redundant, superfluity, fifth wheel



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