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reiteration|riːɪtəˈreɪʃən|
Also 7–8 ret-.
[a. F. réitération (16th c.), or ad. L. reiterātiōn-em, n. of action f. reiterāre to reiterate.]
1. The (or an) act of reiterating, repetition:
a. of actions, etc.
1560Becon New Catech. v. Wks. 1564 I. 459 In thaltare there is no reiteratyon or doing again of (christes) sacrifice. 1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 4 When they see their best..indeuours atchieue nothing, but a reiteration of their labours. 1667Boyle in Phil. Trans. II. 597 The other..Experiment..needed a reiteration to confirm it. 1833J. H. Newman Arians ii. iii. (1876) 163 That there is, (so to express it,) a reiteration of the One Infinite Nature of God. 1872J. G. Murphy Comm., Lev. viii. 35 A sacrifice having atoning validity needs no reiteration.
b. of statements, etc.
1656Bramhall Replic. 34 All that followes..is but a reiteration of the same things, without adding one more grain of reason to enforce it. a1708Beveridge Thes. Theol. (1710) I. 61 Your Baptismal vow and promise, and your many reiterations of it. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxiii, A liar who endeavours by reiteration to obtain a credit for his words. 1875McLaren Serm. Ser. ii. vi. 96 You will observe the reiteration of the same earnest cry in all these clauses.
2. Typog. The action of printing on the back of a sheet; the impression thus made. Also attrib.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xxiv. ⁋15 He folds it again, as before, for a Token-sheet when he works the Reiteration. Ibid., Having now turned the Heap, and made Register on the Reteration Form, he Works off the Reteration. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v. Printing, When the sheet is returned for an impression on the other side, called the reiteration. 1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 333. |