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repetitious, a.|rɛpɪˈtɪʃəs|
[f. L. repetīt-, ppl. stem of repetĕre (see repeat v.) + -ious.]
Abounding in, or characterized by, repetition, esp. of a tedious kind; tiresomely iterative.
(Noted as common in 19th-c. Amer. use in N.E.D.)
1675Penn Eng. Pres. Interest 17 The Great Charter..is comprehensive and repetitious of what I have already been discoursing. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) I. 34 A surprize is an agreeable novelty in this same repetitious world. 1856Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) I. 136 An English legal document,..very long and repetitious. 1860Holland Miss Gilbert vi. 107 It had been drummed into her ears by the repetitious tongue of her mother.
Hence repeˈtitiously adv.; repeˈtitiousness.
1865Sat. Rev. 14 Jan. 62/1 Man is weak; ‘but, more than this, he is wicked—repetitiously and wilfully so’. 1882P. Schaff Apost. Chr. (1883) 785 The apparent repetitiousness and dependence of Ephesians on Colossians. |