"Tautology" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Describing tbe same thing twice in one sentence in equivalent terms; a fault in rhetoric. It differs from
A repetition of the same meaning in different words;
needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a
representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of
itself, as in the following lines: --//The dawn is overcast, the
morning lowers,/And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.
If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.
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An Irish priest and a Rabbi get into a car accident. They both get out of their cars and stumble over to the side of the road. The Rabbi says, "Oy vey! What a wreck!" The priest asks him, "Are you all right, Rabbi?" The Rabbi responds, "Just a little shaken." The priest pulls a flask of whiskey from his coat and says, "Here, drink some of this it will calm your nerves." The Rabbi takes the flask and drinks it down and says, "Well, what are we going to tell the police?" "Well," the priest says, "I don't know what your aft' to be tellin' them. But I'll be tellin' them I wasn't the one drinkin'."
One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic …
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