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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the nature of, or containing,
repetition .
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Examples
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It must be remembered that for convenience I have assembled my intermittent and repetitional jacket experiences into coherent and consecutive narratives.
Chapter 16 2010
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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
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It must be remembered that for convenience I have assembled my intermittent and repetitional jacket experiences into coherent and consecutive narratives.
Chapter 16 1915
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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His is a repetitional statement, though himself does not know it.
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