It is therefore pleonastic to speak of excellent calligraphy or wretched cacography; and to describe the former as wretched would simply be to say that at the same time it was both excellent and the reverse.
In referring to things which are necessarily bad, or the reverse of good, select some less pleonastic adjective.
As in meaning these words embrace from it is pleonastic to precede them by the word thus implied.
Go” usually implies motion forward, therefore, it is pleonastic to say “go past.
As means or some means covers “any means,” it is pleonasticto write “by some means or another.
It is therefore pleonastic to say, as is frequently done, “indorse on the back of.
It is formed by the addition of the Prakrit pleonastic suffix -illa-, which was not used by the Prakrit of the Midland, but was common elsewhere.
Long forms corresponding to the Eastern Hindi ghor^awa, a horse, are not much used, but we not infrequently meet another long form made by suffixing the pleonastic termination do or ro (fem.
The maru- is merely the past participle without the pleonastic termination -alla- which is used in Bihari, as explained under the Mth.
The expression in our liturgy, for Jesus Christ his sake, which is merely a pleonastic one, is the only foundation for this assertion.
Such modern forms made with one pleonastic suffix are called "strong forms," while those made without it are called "weak forms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleonastic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
