Recurring
[rɪ'kɝɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recur
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Returning (at intervals), renewed, reiterated.
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Examples
- She only said earnestly, recurring to his last word-- I am sure no safeguard was ever needed against you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And there is one thing even now that you can do, said Dorothea, rising and walking a little way under the strength of a recurring impulse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Without him we should be good friends; but that six feet of puppyhood makes a perpetually-recurring eclipse of our friendship. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet noble sentiments are constantly recurring: the true note of Roman patriotism--'We Romans are a great people'--resounds through the whole work. Plato. The Republic.
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