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单词 ringing of changes
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ringing of (the) changes
b. ringing of (the) changes: the act of going through numerous repetitions of a process; repetition of essentially the same word, statement, etc., in various different ways.
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iteration1477
itering1530
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ringing of changes1734
dittoism1884
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1734 D. Waterland Diss. Argument A Priori ii. 46 The whole seems to amount to little more than the ringing of Changes upon the Word Necessity.
1785 London Mag. Jan. 27/2 Whoever hath strength of mind enough not to be amused with the quaint antithesis, nor with the ringing of changes upon words.
1823 Edinb. Dramat. Rev. 13 Aug. 102 A perpetual ringing of the changes upon king and country, the duties of a soldier, and the endless et cetera of sentiment which have been long consecrated to Dulness.
1850 G. Gilfillan Second Gallery Lit. Portraits 216 By sobs of sound,..by a ringing of changes on certain words and phrases, he sways us as if with the united powers of music and poetry.
1924 A. E. Waite Brotherhood of Rosy Cross ix. 269 The charge against this is a further ringing of changes on the vexed question of religion.
1977 M. B. Crowe Changing Profile Nat. Law v. 131 In the successors of Philip the Chancellor little that is novel appears, beyond a certain ringing of the changes on the concepts of synderesis, conscience, natural law and habitus.
2003 A. D. Boyer Sir E. Coke & Elizabethan Age vii. 104 Coke and his fellow-professionals distrusted change, but they applauded ingenuity, the masterful ringing of changes within the existing system.
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