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 Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1999

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 Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

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 Henri Bergson 1900

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

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

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

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

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

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

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

I cite 2009

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

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009

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

Literary Life: A Second Memoir Larry McMurtry 2009