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Definition

memorization by repetition

She memorized her lesson by rote, but never really understood it.

rote = memorization by repetition

"They will get used to it," the soldier said as if the words were rote in his mouth.
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic

rote = memorized by repetition

TITANIA First, rehearse your song by rote, To each word a warbling note; Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
(By rote; a kind of almost-tearful recitation) Our son.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The major difficulty in training animals is that they operate either by instinct or by rote.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
He felt calm, like an actor reciting his lines by rote.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Bend in the Road
"Mark it with your initials," said Mr. Dark, by rote.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes
Instead of being a rote learning thing, there's a pattern I can figure out.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
Now, our voices were so many fewer, so tired and broken, dragging through the notes by rote.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
Rote prayers, but prayers all the same.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
I watch his mouth, lip-reading the Polish phrases he's learned by rote.
Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
She gave him his breakfast and he watched her and he listened as she spoke by rote.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
And don't take us too seriously when we turn up our noses at rote learning.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
The preacher, a tired little pinched-face man in a shabby black suit, said the service by rote and read a short, impersonal prayer.
Hal Borland -- When the Legends Die
I come out of a country where educated men are promoted at the whim of morons who recite Marxist litany by rote.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Eragon lost himself in the arcane glyphs, happy to have a task that required nothing more strenuous than rote memorization.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Sansa knew the words by rote.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
I fret on that all through drama, flub my lines every time the thought blankets my brain, disrupts rote memory.
Ellen Hopkins -- Identical
Sorcerers often won't bother with such rote necessities—their energies and instincts are so great that they can simply improvise what they need.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege

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