Editing Pleonasm (section)

===Professional and scholarly use===
Some pleonastic phrases, when used in professional or scholarly writing, may reflect a standardized usage that has evolved or a meaning familiar to specialists but not necessarily to those outside that discipline. Such examples as "null and void",  "each and every" are [[legal doublet]]s that are part of [[Legal English|legally operative language]] that is often drafted into legal documents. A classic example of such usage was that by the [[Lord Chancellor]] at the time (1864), [[Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury|Lord Westbury]], in the English case of ''{{lang|la|ex parte}} Gorely'',<ref>''Ex p Gorely'', (1864) 4 De G L & S 477.</ref> when he described a phrase in an Act as "redundant and pleonastic". This type of usage may be favored in certain contexts. However, it may also be disfavored when used gratuitously to portray false erudition, obfuscate, or otherwise introduce verbiage, especially in disciplines where imprecision may introduce ambiguities (such as the natural sciences).<ref name="Partridge">{{Cite book
| last1      = Partridge
| first1      = Eric
| author1-link = Eric Partridge
| last2      = Whitcut
| first2      = Janet
| title      = Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English
| publisher      = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]
| year      = 1995
| isbn      = 0-393-03761-4
| url      = https://archive.org/details/usageabusagegui00part
}}</ref>