Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Reiterating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Reiterating.
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- adjective Reiterating; repeating.
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Examples
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And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts.
CHAPTER IV 2010
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He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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And as she continued to look, that self-query became reiterant.
CHAPTER XXVII 2010
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Many shots were being fired, and through the uproar I heard the reiterant, monotonous explosions from the Colt's .44
CHAPTER XLII 2010
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Again, reiterant and increasingly imperative, summons from the house slashed across her mood.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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There was the reiterant magic of greening spring; and the long, leisurely days of delicious summer; the companionship of a quaint and infinitely interesting baby brother, and of her own cat -- majesty incarnate on four black legs; and then, just lately, this exciting new "best friend," Tess O'Neill.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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Because it couldn't quite escape, it hurt; she envied the locusts who were letting their sadness escape in that reiterant, tranquil song.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts.
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He fetched up for a moment at a drawing easel, his reiterant cry checked on his lips, and threw a laugh of recognition and appreciation at the sketch, just outlined, of an awkward, big-boned, knobby, weanling colt caught in the act of madly whinneying for its mother.
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And as she continued to look, that self-query became reiterant.
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