Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of or containing repetition.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.

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  • adjective Of the nature of, or containing, repetition.

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Examples

  • It must be remembered that for convenience I have assembled my intermittent and repetitional jacket experiences into coherent and consecutive narratives.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • It were a waste of time to detail the whole of it; and so, without prejudice to the verity of my account, I shall skip much that is vague and tortuous and repetitional, and give the facts as I have assembled them out of the various times, in whole and part, as

    Chapter 12 2010

  • It must be remembered that for convenience I have assembled my intermittent and repetitional jacket experiences into coherent and consecutive narratives.

    Chapter 16 1915

  • It were a waste of time to detail the whole of it; and so, without prejudice to the verity of my account, I shall skip much that is vague and tortuous and repetitional, and give the facts as I have assembled them out of the various times, in whole and part, as I relived them.

    Chapter 12 1915

  • Garden parties had been heard of, were a trifle repetitional, and even dull, but at this one there was real music and real dancing, and clever entertainments were given at intervals in a green-embowered little theatre, erected for the occasion.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Clear, deliberate, never hesitant nor unduly emphatic, never repetitional, always logical, his every word told.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • It were a waste of time to detail the whole of it; and so, without prejudice to the verity of my account, I shall skip much that is vague and tortuous and repetitional, and give the facts as I have assembled them out of the various times, in whole and part, as I relived them.

    The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

  • Clear, deliberate, never hesitant nor unduly emphatic, never repetitional, always logical, his every word told.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 Leonard Huxley 1896

  • It must be remembered that for convenience I have assembled my intermittent and repetitional jacket experiences into coherent and consecutive narratives.

    The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

  • His is a repetitional statement, though himself does not know it.

    A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

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