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Etymology

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tautology +‎ -ize

Verb

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tautologize (third-person singular simple present tautologizes, present participle tautologizing, simple past and past participle tautologized)

  1. To speak or write tautology; to repeat the same thing in different words.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tautologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)