reiterant

American  

[ree-it-er-uhnt] / riˈɪt ər ənt /

adjective

1. reiterating or repeating, especially to an intensified degree.

   reiterant chatter.

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Etymology

Origin of reiterant

1600–10; < Latin reiterant- (stem of reiterāns ), present participle of reiterāre. See reiterate, -ant

Example Sentences

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reiterant

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

And as she continued to look, that self-query became reiterant.

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack

Tough fibers of the stiff-ranked pines parted with a crackling groan, as though unable to bear silently the reiterant stabbing of the frost needles.

From Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life by Knibbs, Henry Herbert

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.

This heedful silken coming and going, these Sunday voices, this reiterant yelp of a single peevish bell—would they never cease?

From The Return by De la Mare, Walter