Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-DUND'ANT
RE-DUND'ANCE, or RE-DUND'AN-CYRE-DUND'ANT-LY
RE-DUND'ANT, a.
- Superfluous; exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food. Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh. – Arbuthnot. Redundant words, in writing or discourse, are such as are synonymous with others used, or such as add nothing to the sense or force of the expression.
- Using more words or images than are necessary or useful. Where an author is redundant, mark these paragraphs to be retrenched. – Watts.
- In music, a redundant chord is one which contains a greater number of tones, semitones or lesser intervals, than it does in its natural state, as from fa to sol sharp. It is called by some authors, a chord extremely sharp. – Encyc.
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