133 adjectives to describe repetitions

And in the frequent repetition of the Pater Noster, we speak Christ's sentiments and words.

As a result, so they said, of the captain's favouritism, Lucas had been forced into a position for which he was entirely un-fitted; and with the expressed determination "not to stand him at any price," they proved themselves ever ready to assist in keeping up a constant repetition of the disturbances which have just been described.

"To learn through life and action is more developing than to learn through words: expression in plastic material, united with thought and speech, is far more developing than mere repetition of words."

As I turned from his retreating figure and flung myself down before the hearth, this was the question I continually propounded to myself, in vain repetition.

Routine observations, too, dull as they are, are less dull than the endless repetition of the same pattern in crochet-work.

It is indeed natural for injury to provoke anger, and by continual repetition to produce an habitual asperity; yet I have hitherto struggled with so much vigilance against my pride and my resentment, that I have preserved my temper uncorrupted.

As in these two debates the arguments were the same, they are thrown into one, to prevent unnecessary repetitions.

I have spoken so often of the loveliness of the evenings on these beautiful lakes, that to attempt a description of the one we enjoyed on this romantic island, would be only a tiresome repetition.

It means the attainment of something positive and emphatic in the way of a conclusion, based on amply repeated experiments capable of infinite repetition, "proved," as they say, "up to the hilt.

I often work long without any thought whatever, so far as I know, save that connected with the monotonous repetition of the labour itselfdown with the spade, out with it, up with it, over with itand repeat.

It does not reproduce the finger-tip, but a particular print of the finger, and so, if ten prints are made with a single stamp, each print will be a mechanical repetition of the other nine.

The English language teems with phrases once strikingly original but now smooth-worn and vulgarized by incessant repetition.

The two of you were joined by an old gentleman who forthwith began to talk wordily, tediously, continuously, with needless repetitions and in tiresome detail; you suspected that he had suffered a mental decline from age, and that he might be excessively fond, in season and out of season, of talking about himself and his opinions.

It seems to be a useless repetition of an obvious fact that to apply the mind to the prayers read, helps to ward off and to drive away distractions.

We can force a child to passivity, to formal repetitions of second-hand knowledge, to the acquisition of that for which he has no apparent need, but we can never educate him by these things.

He was wearied with a perpetual repetition of similar impressions; and entertained an invincible disgust against all that was new.

Here then, by a disagreeable repetition of two nouns, we have the same sense without any pronoun; but it is obvious that the pronouns form a better mode of expression, because they prevent this awkward repetition.

Mr. Boswell tells us, that when he remarked to Dr. Johnson, that there was an awkward repetition of the word spreads in this passage, he altered it to "Burns from the strong contagion of the gown;" but this expression, it appears, was only resumed from the reading in the first edition.

This force, exercised largely by emphatic repetition (the theoretical basis, as has been observed, of the modern practice of advertising), has played a great part in establishing authoritative opinions and propagating religious creeds.

In the mean time I require a favourable censure of all faults omitted, harsh compositions, pleonasms of words, tautological repetitions (though Seneca bear me out, nunquam nimis dicitur, quod nunquam satis dicitur) perturbations of tenses, numbers, printers' faults, &c.

"It was the exact repetition of the first, at the opening of the Congress.

The selling or the killing being virtually a deliberate repetition of the crime, the penalty was more than doubled.

Some one in a company quoting the passage from "Henry V.," "So work the honey-bees," and each "picking out his pet plum" from that perfect piece of natural history, Wordsworth objected to the line, "The singing masons building roofs of gold," because, he said, of the unpleasant repetition of the "ing" in it!

No freedom, independent of the servile repetitions of history and heredity, is conceivable until these inquiries have been elaborately carried out toward a certain working finality.

Presently a single voice rose, singing an exquisite little French canzonet, the refrain of which was a passionate repetition of the word "Amie."

133 adjectives to describe  repetitions