reiterant

American  

[ree-it-er-uhnt] / riˈɪt ər ənt /

adjective

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

   reiterant chatter.

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Etymology

Origin of reiterant

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

Example Sentences

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

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 Knibbs, Henry Herbert

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

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 De la Mare, Walter

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

From The Little Lady of the Big House by London, Jack