reduplication
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What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
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We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.
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"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."
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The reduplication of the p in happy, the t in pitted, &c., is a mere point of spelling.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The reduplication of roots in Dak as in I E is extremely frequent, in both, as in other languages, developing iteratives which occasionally become intensives.
From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by Williamson, A. W. (Andrew Woods)