pleonastic

• The Oxford English Dictionary itself goes a little further and calls it "pleonastic." —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
• I'm not sure which is harder: violating everything the character stands for in such a way that you don't completely destroy the character, or carrying on without violation, yet in a way that doesn't become pleonastic and boring. —  Comic Book Resources
• Thus seems to be the true meaning, otherwise avekshya would be pleonastic, abhutagatim is bhutasamplavaparyantam, i.e., till the destruction of all beings. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
• 6 Not one, nor other, (said the Palmer graue Hath him befalne, but cloudes of deadly night 8 A while his heauie eylids couer'd haue And all his senses drowned in deepe senselesse waue 1 Said he then to the palmer, "Reverend sire sire > {Father; form of address to an elderly or holy man; the original form of "sir 2 What great misfortune has betide this knight betide > befallen 3 Or did his life its fatal date expire Or > Either (pleonastic, and thus intensive) fatal date > preordained term expire > terminate, use up 4 Or did he fall by treason, or by fight? —  The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
• So it could be called pleonastic or tautological, but not an oxymoron. —  GeekLikeMe.net

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