reiterant

[ ree-it-er-uhnt ]

adjective

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

   reiterant chatter.

Word History and Origins

Origin of reiterant¹

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

Example Sentences

Again, reiterant and increasingly imperative, summons from the house slashed across her mood.

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Ever and ever a reiterant, restless craving gnawed, like a worm, at her heart.

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

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

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It was neither sad nor joyous; it suggested dreamy, reiterant thoughts; it was not music, but the memory of music.

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