reduplicating

Example Sentences

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So with reduplicating speech she conveyed intelligence to his mind.

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence

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

Intelligence, he thought, is no miraculous, idle faculty, by which we mirror passively any or everything that happens to be true, reduplicating the real world to no purpose.

From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George

Ah! if science had only the means of conducting and reduplicating sounds, as it does the rays of light, what carols of happiness would then have entranced my ears!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various

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