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REPEATEDLY adv.

More than once; again and again; indefinitely.

REPEATER n. 5 definitions

One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically:

g the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times…

A stepping or going back. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

REPEL v. 3 definitions

To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant. Hippomedon repelled the hostile tide. Pope. They repelled each other strongly, and yet attracted each other strongly. Macaulay.

REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY n.

The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.

REPELLENT a. 4 definitions

Driving back; able or tending to repel.

One who, or that which, repels.

REPENT a. 8 definitions

Same as Reptant.

The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 20. Repentance is a change of mind, or a conversion from sin to God. Hammond. Repentance is the relinquishment of any p…

REPENTANT a. 3 definitions

Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton.

REPENTANTLY adv.

In a repentant manner.

One who repents.

REPENTINGLY adv.

With repentance; penitently.

Unrepentant. [R.]

To people anew.

REPERCEPTION n.

The act of perceiving again; a repeated perception of the same object. No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine. Keats.

t back; hence, to reflect; to reverberate. Perceiving all the subjacent country, . . . to repercuss such a light as I could hardly look against. Evelyn.

REPERCUSSION n. 4 definitions

ct of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. Ever echoing back in endless repercussion. Hare.

REPERCUSSIVE a. 4 definitions

Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate. Ye repercussive rocks! repeat the sound. W. Pattison.