reiterant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of reiterant
1600–10; < Latin reiterant- (stem of reiterāns ), present participle of reiterāre. See reiterate, -ant
Example Sentences
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As pure shining beads upon a thread of gold I saw this small, dear picture, reiterant and unchanged, year after year, always with the same calm and pure surroundings.
From The Singing Mouse Stories by Hough, Emerson
Through youth to maturity, and on to age, it sang with the same reiterant, subduing, infallible loyalty—the crystallized melody of all that is spiritual in love, in adoration, in passion.
From Told in a French Garden August, 1914 by Aldrich, Mildred
Because it couldn't quite escape, it hurt; she envied the locusts who were letting their sadness escape in that reiterant, tranquil song.
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
Winter, with its thin shifts of snow, its intermittent sunshiny days, its biting winds that bored through chaps and heavy gloves, was finally borne away on the reiterant, warm breezes of spring.
From The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Brinkerhoff, R. M.
The gallant young lover— Again, reiterant and increasingly imperative, summons from the house slashed across her mood.
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
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