repetitious

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Repeating; containing repetition.--Webster. Mr. Pickering notices this word, which he thinks is peculiar to the writer from whom the following extract is taken:


The observation which you have quoted from the Abbé Raynal, which has been written off in a succession not much less repetitious, or protracted, than that in which school-boys of former times wrote.--Remarks on the Rev. of Inchiquin's Letters, Boston, 1815.

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