Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word or part of a word repeated so as to form a reduplicated word: as, prittle-prattle is a reiterative of prattle.
- noun In grammar, a word, as a verb, signifying repeated action.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
- noun A word formed from another, or used to form another, by repetition.
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- adjective that involves
reiteration
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- adjective marked by iteration
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Examples
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It will dramatically reduce assistance to low-income children and youth, assuring that these cuts are not just one-time cuts, but that they have a long-term reiterative effect over the years as they touch future generations.
Press Briefing By Hud Secretary Henry Cisneros ITY National Archives 1995
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Davis's method has always been reiterative rather than narrative.
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Davis's method has always been reiterative rather than narrative.
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He failed to mention it because he carries within himself, like the majority of citizens do, a paranoiameter, a reflexive mental reflex that shrugs off the reiterative truth that the government is ... truly is ... owned and operated by economic, rather than moral or patriotic, interests.
Good-Bye America! 2009
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That's almost identical to my diagram of Triessentialism, a simple reiterative systematic philosophy that explains everything.
Scary stories. Jessica Hagy 2007
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'Modern evolutionary theorists' do always seem to have such a difficult time differentiating their own statements about "evolution" from "evolution" (whatever they happen mean by that term when they do manage to use it to mean something other than "statements about" evolution "" — there's a reiterative statement for ya ')
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Heraclitus, reiterative timelines, Bohr and mystical events by Orpheus | LOST Theories
Heraclitus, reiterative timelines, Bohr and mystical events by Orpheus 2008
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When this is a universal condition, the energy flow is uniform in reiterative patterns across magnitudes.
Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007
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The first part that was reiterative was objected to on the basis that it was redundant.
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“Sitting in Darkness,” by contrast, picked up the throbbing reiterative cadences of the gospel preacher, the calling Clemens had once considered.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
Louises commented on the word reiterative
I managed an hour of reiterative calls to Aegis before the batteries on Russel's and Wazz's mobiles died. Louises Manhattan, needless to say, flowed around us, honked, glimmered, flashed, steamed, whistled, whooped and subterraneously shuddered. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Mar 10, 2012 ⋅ edit ⋅ delete
March 25, 2012