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Example sentences for "tautological"

Lexicographically close words:
taut; tauta; tautened; tautening; tauter; tautology; taux; tav; tavern; taverne
  1. The third and last proof of the existence of God proposed by the theists and called by them the metaphysical proof is nothing but a tautological construction of categories, which proves absolutely nothing.

  2. Now, this is as if it should be pretended that the education of liberty is effected by liberty, the instruction of the mind by the mind, the determination of value by value, all of which propositions are evidently tautological and absurd.

  3. One who uses tautological words or phrases.

  4. Now this statement appears to me either a truism or untrue: it is either tautological in expression, or erroneous in fact.

  5. But where I find that all competent authorities are in substantial agreement, I will not burden my exposition by tautological quotations.

  6. At this point it would be almost tautological to enter into any series of statements as showing Rev.

  7. The unhuman is the real, the extant on all hands, and by the proof that it is "not human" the critic only enunciates plainly the tautological sentence that it is the unhuman.

  8. Defn: One who uses tautological words or phrases.

  9. Tautological echo, an echo that repeats the same sound or syllable many times.

  10. The Doctor attempted to speak, but his voice was soon drowned by the Stentorian lungs and tautological verbiage of his opponent.

  11. Extemporary harangues, immethodical and tautological at best, sometimes profane, often absurd and perplexing, never instructive, became universal.

  12. There is the tautological talker, or the human self-repeater.

  13. But this very tautological knowledge called inexorably to him: what does not exist, exists not!

  14. It has signs of carelessness throughout; the former sentence being both tautological and ungrammatical.

  15. In the laudable attempt to escape from the doubtfulness, disputableness, and apparent arbitrariness of current moral opinions, he is liable to take refuge in principles that are incontrovertible but tautological and insignificant.

  16. The fourth conflict is, as has already been said, in its real meaning tautological with the third.

  17. The fourth conflict is, as I have already remarked, really tautological with the third; and the proof of the thesis is also essentially the same as that of the preceding one.


  18. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tautological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    echoing; expletive; imitative; iterative; needless; redundant; repetitive