adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a tautological manner, with tautology.

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1620.  T. Granger, Div. Logike, 292. Handle the same matter (homogeneously, not tautologically).

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1711.  Oldmixon, Hist. of Addresses, II. 2. I shou’d rejoice to see ’em tautologically sincere, with the same thing over and over again, like a Fanatick in his Extempore, or a rural Orthodox in a Funeral Sermon.

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1820.  Coleridge, Let. C. A. Tulk, 17 July (in Pearson’s Catal. [1894] 14). At once superfluous and defective, tautologically superfluous in the point of co-equality, and dangerously defective in that of the subordination.

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1840.  Hood, Up Rhine, 61. I join with Dr. Watts’ sluggard in wishing tautologically, for ‘a little more sleep and a little more slumber.’

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  So Tautologicalness (Bailey, 1727, vol. II.).

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