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Pleonasm

Pleonasm: using more words than required to express an idea; being redundant. Normally a vice, it is done on purpose on rare occasions for emphasis:

  • We heard it with our own ears.
  • And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, except Jesus Himself alone. --Matthew 17:8
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