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repetition

Roget category 104

1. Words expressing abstract relations
1.5. Number
›› 1.5.3. Indeterminate number

#104. Repetition

noun

repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, runbattology, tautologymonotony, tautophonyrhythm etc. 138diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.
chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrainrehearsalrechauffe [Fr.], rifacimento [It], recapitulation.
cuckoo etc. (imitation) 19reverberation etc. 408drumming etc. (roll) 407renewal etc. (restoration) 660.
twice-told taleold story, old songsecond edition, new edition reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp.]periodicity etc. 138.

verb

repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.
recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse [Comp.]renew etc. (restore) 660.
rehearsedo over again, say over againring the changes onharp on the same stringdin in the ear, drum in the earconjugate in all its moods tenses and conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last ofresume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

adjective

repeated etc. v. — repetitional, repetitionaryrecurrent, recurringever recurring, thick comingfrequent, incessantredundant, pleonastic.
monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive [Comp.], unvariedmocking, chimingretoldaforesaid, aforenamedabove-mentioned, above-saidhabitual etc. 613another.

adverb

repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once moreding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo [It].
again and againover and over, over and over againrecursively [Comp.]many times overtime and again, time after timeyear after yearday by day &c. — many times, several times, a number of timesmany a time, full many a timefrequently etc. 136.

phrase

ecce iterum Crispinus [Lat.]toujours perdrix [Fr.]cut and come again" [Crabbe]; tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]; cantilenam eandem canis [Lat.] [Terence]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius [Lat.] [Terence].

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