All 3 Uses of
iterate
in
Middlemarch
- A tune much iterated has the ridiculous effect of making the words in my mind perform a sort of minuet to keep time—an effect hardly tolerable, I imagine, after boyhood.†
Chpt 1 *
- In Mr. Casaubon's ear, Dorothea's voice gave loud emphatic iteration to those muffled suggestions of consciousness which it was possible to explain as mere fancy, the illusion of exaggerated sensitiveness: always when such suggestions are unmistakably repeated from without, they are resisted as cruel and unjust.†
Chpt 2
- "Yes, ma'am, yes, he did; he did so," said the good auctioneer, trying to throw something soothing into his iteration.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
to be done again