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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1608, 1685
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Tautologé, Tautollogie, n. [e.m.E. tautologie (1579), tautology (1599), F. tautologie, late L. tautologia.] Repetition of information, ideas or arguments. — 1685 Insh Colonial Schemes 250.
The best fleshes of all kinds ever I did see are here tho this in respect of what you have heard, be generally tautollogie — 1608 Calderwood VI 744.
The hoodstaill of wrested scripture and threedbare fathers … Such tautologeis and vaine baibling I would never have looked for … from a man that is a logicianer
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