tautologist

English

Etymology

tautology +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst

Noun

tautologist (plural tautologists)

1. One who makes tautologies.
   • 1996, Syed Manzoorul Islam, The Ethics of Travel: From Marco Polo to Kafka, page 28:

     His is the pseudo-movement, where the doubling simply mimics the routine of a tautologist, of a monologist, and of a Hegelian dialectician.

   • 1995, Philip Collins, Charles Dickens: The Critical Heritage, page 579:

     Nature isn't such a tautologist as to make another to follow him.

   • 1886, Alexander Melville Bell, Essays and Postscripts on Elocution, page 162:

     When his action is mechanically good he produces a great effect on an uncritical assembly, but he is a tiresome tautologist to the intellectual.

   • 1870, Victor Hugo, The Destroyer of the Second Republic: Being Napoleon the Little, page 302:

     Do you think that God is a tautologist? Let us have faith! Let us say something positive. Irony of itself is the beginning of baseness.

   • 1797, John Bell, Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays, page 19:

     Oh, that damn'd tautologist too!