reiterant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of reiterant
1600–10; < Latin reiterant- (stem of reiterāns ), present participle of reiterāre. See reiterate, -ant
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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 Henry Herbert Knibbs
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 Walter De la Mare
In Heaven they said so; and at Eden's gate,— And here, reiterant, in the wilderness.
From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
In Heaven they said so, and at Eden's gate, And here, reiterant, in the wilderness.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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 Dana Gatlin
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