Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.
Etymologies
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Examples
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His words showed me how perturbed he was, because he'd spoken them before and self-repetition wasn't a habit of his.
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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
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His teacher had preached 'love,' 'love,' 'love,' with Pauline iteration, and not a little self-repetition.
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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?
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I never can understand the lengths to which some authors go in self-repetition.
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And even if it were the highest, it would be brought low again by its infinite self-repetition.
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One of the most curious things about Miss Austen is the entire absence of self-repetition in her.
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Note that frequency can be citational or monological, that is, it can come from circulation or from self-repetition.
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One reason to stop writing fiction is to curb a writer’s natural tendency to self-repetition.
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One reason to stop writing fiction is to curb a writer’s natural tendency to self-repetition.
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