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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In Heaven they said so; and at Eden's gate,— And here, reiterant, in the wilderness.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
In Heaven they said so, and at Eden's gate, And here, reiterant, in the wilderness.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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 Dana Gatlin
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 Emerson Hough
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 R. M. Brinkerhoff
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