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."

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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.

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What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

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Mr. Gatschet’s researches will add materially to the knowledge of the functions of reduplication in tribal languages.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various

The reduplication of roots in Dak as in I E is extremely frequent, in both, as in other languages, developing iteratives which occasionally become intensives.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by Williamson, A. W. (Andrew Woods)