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Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. De Quincey. That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen. Featley. Happiness with an echo or ingemination. Holdsworth.

Iteration. [Obs.]

By way of iteration.

e letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

rom the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.

The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.

The act of erasing or effacing, or the state of being effaced; obliteration. See Rasure.

Rapid reiteration of the same sound.

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak.

An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.

Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.

The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.

A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.