Antonyms for repetition

Grammar : Noun

Spell : rep-i-tish-uh n

Phonetic Transcription : ˌrɛp ɪˈtɪʃ ən

Definition of repetition

Origin : early 15c., "act of saying over again," from Old French repetition and directly from Latin repetitionem (nominative repetitio) "a repeating," noun of action from past participle stem of repetere "do or say again" (see repeat (v.)). Of actions, attested from 1590s.

noun duplication; doing again

Example sentences :

We hear them read far too often and far too badly, and all repetition is anti-spiritual.
Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde

This repetition was in a loud voice, so that any juryman dull of hearing might catch it.
Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith

Magua shook his head, forbidding the repetition of offers he so much despised.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

At every repetition of the word he pressed his grandson closer to his breast.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

There was no repetition of the telepathic means of communication.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

And you dread and shrink from the idea of a repetition of this business?
Extract from : « The First Violin » by Jessie Fothergill

But Bunyan had given us all that he had to tell about the journey, and we do not need a repetition of it.
Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude

All repetition is blamable.thought in two pictures is wasted life.
Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume I (of V) » by John Ruskin

The repetition of the words struck a chill to the heart of Artois.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

You intimate the future will be but a repetition of the past.
Extract from : « A Breath of Prairie and other stories » by Will Lillibridge

Synonyms for repetition

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