单词 | reduplicating |
释义 | reduplicatingadj. That reduplicates; causing, or connected with, reduplication. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > relating to reduplication reduplicative1605 reduplicating1648 reduplicatory1780 1648 J. Quarles Fons Lachrymarum 23 O miserable men that live to know Such times, such a reduplicating wo! 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Reduplication The usual Reduplicating Words are quatenus, as, so far as, consider'd as, inasmuch as, &c. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xviii. 229 The thundering shout, Rolling among reduplicating rocks. 1883 A. S. Hardy But yet Woman 254 Windows whose reduplicating mirrors were arranged to catch the eye of the loiterer. 1939 Amer. Lit. 11 168 In no other piece can one find quite the heavy, reduplicating blows which Lincoln employs as, over Greeley's shoulder, he speaks to the average citizen. 1960 Shakespeare Q. 11 9 When Juliet reluctantly agrees, ‘More light and light it grows’, he completes the paradox with a doubly reduplicating line: More light and light—more dark and dark our woes! 1992 D. Gutch in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 574 The Old High German r-preterites..have been seen as..reduplicating perfects. 2008 Australian (Nexis) 5 Jan. 4 Writers of the Australian landscape..populate their country with presences and figures of speech and flights of imagination..until quiet, empty-seeming land is covered..with a reduplicating set of literary tracks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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