reduplicating

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He was also guilty of reduplicating the first syllables of words, producing such expressions as p�p�tiller, sousouflantes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth!

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.

Somewhere in this great, multitudinous mass of humanity he is sinning and sinning and reduplicating and extending the sin that you did.

From Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks by Brooks, Phillips

Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones—whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets—and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.

From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Reid, Mayne

I sometimes wonder whether those who are forgiven, yet have left evil behind them on earth, are purified by being shown their own errors reduplicating with time and numbers.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary