self-repetition

His words showed me how perturbed he was, because he'd spoken them before and self-repetition wasn't a habit of his.

Operation Luna

In the later case History evidently lost a chance of self-repetition in the person of some leader like Moses, the Hebra-Egyptian Spartacus, arising to avenge and deliver his people.

West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

His teacher had preached 'love,' 'love,' 'love,' with Pauline iteration, and not a little self-repetition.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales

If the comic poet's object is to offer us types, that is to say, characters capable of self-repetition, how can he set about it better than by showing us, in each instance, several different copies of the same model?

Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

I never can understand the lengths to which some authors go in self-repetition.

Without Prejudice

And even if it were the highest, it would be brought low again by its infinite self-repetition.

Without Prejudice

One of the most curious things about Miss Austen is the entire absence of self-repetition in her.

The English Novel

Note that frequency can be citational or monological, that is, it can come from circulation or from self-repetition.

I cite

One reason to stop writing fiction is to curb a writer’s natural tendency to self-repetition.

Literary Life: A Second Memoir

It is garrulous and given to self-repetition (so much so that one of Mr. Bullen's reasons for attributing _The Lady Mother_ to Glapthorne is the occurrence in it of passages almost literally repeated in his known work); it testifies to a relish of, and a habituation to, the great school, coupled with powers insufficient to emulate the work of the great school itself; it is exactly in flavour and character the last _not_ sprightly runnings of a generous liquor.

A History of Elizabethan Literature