[f. as prec. + -IST.] One who practises tautology.

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1702.  Steele, Funeral, I. 14. Oh! that Damn’d Tautologist too—That [Mr.] Puzzle and his Irrevocable Deed!

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Tautologist, one who says the same Things over and over.

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1805.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., III. 649. All such literary tautologists are proper objects of epitomization.

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1895.  Ella Fuller Maitland, Bethia Hardacre, 135.

        Quoth I to her one day, ‘Tautologist thou art
To wear that shining cross linked to that crystal heart.’
Quoth she, ‘Can woman’s heart e’er from her cross be far?’
Quoth I, ‘Alas, dear child, the self-same things they are.’

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