redundance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin redundantia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈdʌndəns/

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Noun

redundance (countable and uncountable, plural redundances)

1. (now rare) Redundancy.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , vol.I, New York 2001, p.236:

     Phlebotomy, many times neglected, may do much harm to the body, when there is a manifest redundance of bad humours and melancholy blood […]