A black darkness is an example of a pleonasm.
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Pleonasm
/ˈpliː.əˌnæz.əm/
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Nothing is gained in strength nor precision by this kind of pleonasm.
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St. Jerome and St. Augustine are both sparing in the employment of the device of pleonasm.
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Indeed, pleonasm, the use of superfluous or redundant words, is only part of the broader features of that style, the expressions of which have been so thoroughly analyzed by Franz Neirynck² and which for convenience will here be referred to as "dualisms."
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