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English
Etymology
From tautologous + -ly.
Adverb
tautologously (comparative more tautologously, superlative most tautologously)
- In a tautologous manner.
1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Kindle edition, OUP Oxford, published 2016, page 46:Any gene that behaves in such a way as to increase its own survival chances in the gene pool at the expense of its alleles will, by definition, tautologously, tend to survive.