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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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