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

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reiterant

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

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

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

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

“The world’s book now reads drily,” except, indeed, for such as are enwrapped and mummified in the garments of the reiterant daily commonplace.

From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.

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 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett