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Definition of Reiterative
1. Adjective. Marked by iteration.
Similar to: Repetitious, Repetitive
Derivative terms: Iterate, Iterate, Reiterate
Definition of Reiterative
1. n. A word expressing repeated or reiterated action.
Definition of Reiterative
1. Adjective. that involves reiteration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reiterative
1. iterative [adj] - See also: iterative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reiterative
Literary usage of Reiterative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India by John Muir (1873)
"For by dividing language into the different classes of injunctive, reiterative,
etc., learned men recognise the uses of the reiterative also. ..."
2. Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions by Percy Stafford Allen, John de Monins Johnson (1908)
"The reiterative triads consist simply in a threefold representation of a divinity
in image or in formula. To this class belong the Greek representations of ..."
3. The Evergreen Tree by Percy MacKaye (1917)
"CHORUS B Herod, our lord and king! Who shall defy his Fifth Chorus: command?
~'/5f ^ The Wrath of Herod CHORUS AB,2, reiterative A star! ..."
4. Easy lessons or self-instruction in Irish by Ulick Joseph Bourke (1885)
"2lc has a reiterative meaning, or going back again ... becomes a negative particle ;
sometimes, however, it extends to both, and then it is a reiterative. ..."
5. Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and Progress of the Religion and by John Muir (1861)
"-For by dividing language into the different classes of injunctive, reiterative,
etc., learned men recognise the uses of the reiterative also. ..."
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