reduplicating
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Intelligence, he thought, is no miraculous, idle faculty, by which we mirror passively any or everything that happens to be true, reduplicating the real world to no purpose.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by George Santayana
It was an awesome picture, that ravenous and reduplicating mouth!
From Essays in Rebellion by Henry W. Nevinson
Twenty yards of the rope already in hand was set against stones—whose weight they had already determined by reduplicating a number of bullets—and its quantity ascertained in pounds and ounces.
From The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid
Ah! if science had only the means of conducting and reduplicating sounds, as it does the rays of light, what carols of happiness would then have entranced my ears!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various
The Octave is the starting-point of a new series reduplicating the starting-point of the previous series at a different level, just as does the octave note in music.
From The Doré Lectures being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by T. (Thomas) Troward
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