Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who uses more words than are needed; one given to redundancy in speech or writing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare One who is addicted to pleonasm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun rare One who is addicted to pleonasm, or redundancy in speech or writing.

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