| 单词 |
perissology |
| 释义 |
periˈssology Rhet. ? Obs. [ad. late L. perissologia, a. Gr. περισσολογία, f. περισσολόγος speaking too much, f. περισσός, redundant + λόγος speech.] Redundance or superfluity of speech; use of more words than are necessary; pleonasm.
1583Fulke Defence (Parker Soc.) 136 Haue not the most elegant authors used hyperbatons, perissologies, and other figures that are counted faults of speech? [1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. (Arb.) 264 Macrologia, or long language..: it is also named by the Greeks Perissologia.] 1656Blount Glossogr., Perissology, superfluous speaking. 1776Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) I. 359 If we should say the alcoran we should fall into a gross perissology. Hence perissoˈlogical a. (rare—0), ‘redundant in words’ (Webster 1828). |

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