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- noun Plural form of
repetition .
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Examples
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Don't go crazy with it ... two or three repetitions is enough.
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Stuttering or stammering as it is called in the UK is characterized by repetitions of words or sounds and prolongations in the flow of speech.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Understanding Stuttering M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Stuttering or stammering as it is called in the UK is characterized by repetitions of words or sounds and prolongations in the flow of speech.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Understanding Stuttering M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Don't go crazy with it ... two or three repetitions is enough.
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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
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CHRISTGAU: Lyrically, this is a simple ditty keyed to 17 title repetitions, but its emotional complexity is how rock 'n' roll songwriting works.
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Later additions and supplements to an original work would result in repetitions and an overall disorder.
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He abounds in repetitions, not for ornament, but for force and weight.
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In the Church of Rome, not only is it carried to a shameless extent, but, as Tholuck justly observes, the very prayer which our Lord gave as an antidote to vain repetitions is the most abused to this superstitious end; the number of times it is repeated counting for so much more merit.
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Thus eager disputants, that resolve they will have the last word, by such vain repetitions, to avoid the shame of being silenced, make themselves accountable for many idle words.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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