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REDUNDANTLY
Etymology
Adverb
redundantly (comparative more redundantly, superlative most redundantly)
In a redundant manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*dun"dant*ly (r*dn"dant*l), adv.
Definition: In a refundant manner.
REDUNDANT
Re*dun"dant (-dant), a. Etym: [L. redundans, -antis, p. pr. of redundare: cf. F. redondant. See Redound.]
1. 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.
2. Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. I. Watts.
Syn.
– Superfluous; superabundant; excessive; exuberant; overflowing; plentiful; copious.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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