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 Mildred Aldrich
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
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
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
The gallant young lover— Again, reiterant and increasingly imperative, summons from the house slashed across her mood.
From Missy by Dana Gatlin
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