Citations:pleonastic


 * 1) That has been used or taken to excess.
 * 2) * 1983, George B. Kerferd, Two Problems Concerning Impulses, William W. Fortenbaugh (editor),, On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus, page 88,
 * The answer given by the Stoics was that a pathos was an impulse or hormẽ that "went too far" and their name for this principle of "going too far" was pleonasmos. The evidence is overwhelming that when an impulse which was itself good went too far or became pleonastic, it then became bad.