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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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
The gallant young lover— Again, reiterant and increasingly imperative, summons from the house slashed across her mood.
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
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
“The world’s book now reads drily,” except, indeed, for such as are enwrapped and mummified in the garments of the reiterant daily commonplace.
From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.
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
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