Both Uses
redundant
in
Moby Dick
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- The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.†
Chpt 28-30
- He was a small, short, youngish man, sprinkled all over his face with freckles, and wearing redundant yellow hair.
Chpt 70-72 *redundant = more than is needed
Definitions:
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(1)
(redundant) more than is needed -- often something that is unnecessarily repeated
or in technical usage: describing a secondary component designed to work if the primary component fails - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)