iterant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of iterant
1620–30; < Latin iterant- (stem of iterāns ), present participle of iterāre to repeat. See iterate, -ant
Example Sentences
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That said, I can see how being an iterant teacher makes difficult classroom-management conversations hard, and why a teacher who is already clearly not on top of their classroom management may not seem helpful.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2019
Pop feminist site the Frisky, which hosted Deen’s iterant, off-the-cuff advice column, canceled all future installments.
From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2015
Now most of us have always supposed these old and iterant phrases to be a mere pattern of dead words, a thing like a cold wall-paper.
From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Others there were, casual visitors, and of course it did not escape the squawks and squabbles of the English sparrow,— "Irritant, iterant, maddening bird."
From Little Brothers of the Air by Miller, Olive Thorne
Out of the sedge by the creek a flight of clamorous killdees Rose from their timorous sleep with piercing and iterant challenge, Wheeled in the starlight, and fled away into distance and silence.
From Poems by Howells, William Dean
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