redundance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin redundantia.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈdʌndəns/

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: Printed by 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 […]
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