reduplication
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"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."
From Time Magazine Archive
What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?
From Time Magazine Archive
We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Restitit = stood still; re + si-st-o, i.e. from √sta-, strengthened by reduplication; cf. ἵ-στη-μι.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
The poet read the letter, and was rejoiced to see a promise of pardon; but on looking a second time at the address, was surprised to observe the mark of reduplication over the "n."
From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous
