Synonyms for quoting

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kwoht

Phonetic Transcription : kwoʊt

Définition of quoting

Origin : late 14c., coten, "to mark (a book) with chapter numbers or marginal references," from Old French coter, from Medieval Latin quotare "distinguish by numbers, number chapters," from Latin quotus "which in order? what number (in sequence)?," from quot "how many," from PIE *kwo-ti-, from pronomial root *kwo- (see who).
The sense development is via "to give as a reference, to cite as an authority" (1570s) to "to copy out or repeat exact words" (1670s). Modern spelling with qu- is from early 15c. The business sense of "to state the price of a commodity" (1866) revives the etymological meaning. Related: Quoted; quoting.

adj repeating

Example sentences :

When we only spoil you by praising and quoting everything you say.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I got a dispatch from, him quoting the Virago of Paris—meaning the Figaro, of course.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 » by Various

So one might go on quoting felicity for ever from this writer.
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

I can only vouch for its veracity by quoting the famous phrase, "If you see it in the Sun, it is so."
Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow

“The realisation is a terrible thing,” writes our Scribe, quoting his Master.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

By the time he told his mother he was come to quoting Hurst's adjectives as his own.
Extract from : « Stories of a Western Town » by Octave Thanet

I was not quoting our Mr. Dickens this time, but his famous namesake.
Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln

I judge you are quoting from her letter and apparently she piled it on red-hot.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

And she wiped her eyes and looked solemn, for she believed she was quoting Scripture.
Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever

Only that you are quoting from the Declaration of Independence, and fancy it the constitution.
Extract from : « The Bondwoman » by Marah Ellis Ryan

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