reiterativeadj.n.

1619 [implied in: Arraignm. Barnevelt §23 Notwithstanding, that by the States of Vtrecht, they were reiteratiuely willed and required to doe it. (at reiteratively adv.)].

1656 in Coll. State Papers J. Thurloe (1742) V. 111 The reiterative complaint, that in France they begin to dispute the right of Aubene, and that in the ports of Spain they will visit the Holland ships against the maritime treaty.

1787 Daily Universal Reg. 18 Sept. 2/4 The Deputation from the Court of Aids presented, on Sunday evening last, a reiterative supplication to the King.

1834 Fraser's Mag. 9 76 Do away with the iterative and reiterative plan altogether, and substitute an intellectual one.

1868 J. B. Lightfoot Epist. Philippians (1873) Introd. iv. 68 He then urges his converts to unity in the strong reiterative language which has been already noticed.

1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xiii. 293 It is like words spoken aloud now: reiterative, patient, justificative: ‘I paid for it. I didn't quibble about the price.’

1972 D. Mahon Lives 27 They too Moved in a slow dance Of the purest energy, Intent on a reiterative Exercise of known powers.

2001 Kenyon Rev. Winter 128 Glück's subject has long been the zero sum game of the nuclear family (even when she grants a place to grandparents, aunts, and a sister's children, they are merely the reiterative instance of nuclear entrapment).

1805 H. T. Colebrooke Gram. Sanscrit Lang. I. xvi. ii. 136 The old grammarians assigned the name of Charcaríta to this form of the intensive or reiterative.

a1813 A. Murray Hist. European Lang. (1823) II. 279 Reiteratives or verbs expressive of repeated or intense action.

1949 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 69 107/1 He arranges the verbal combinations into the following classes:..Class IV, formed with the ‘imperfect’ and perfect participles,—Continuatives, Progressives, Staticals, Reiteratives.

2006 M. Bender tr. Butterfly Mother 192 (note) The verb haib means ‘stuck together’ and the adverbial reiteratives dlel dlel indicate that they stuck together instantly.