reiterant

[ ree-it-er-uhnt ]

/ riˈɪt ər ənt /

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reiterating or repeating, especially to an intensified degree: reiterant chatter.

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In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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

Again, reiterant and increasingly imperative, summons from the house slashed across her mood.
Missy|Dana Gatlin
Ever and ever a reiterant, restless craving gnawed, like a worm, at her heart.
Under the Witches' Moon|Nathan Gallizier
And as she continued to look, that self-query became reiterant.
The Little Lady of the Big House|Jack London
This heedful silken coming and going, these Sunday voices, this reiterant yelp of a single peevish bell—would they never cease?
The Return|Walter de la Mare

It was neither sad nor joyous; it suggested dreamy, reiterant thoughts; it was not music, but the memory of music.
The Jonathan Papers|Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris