Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection V. Number
3. Indeterminate Number
104. Repetition.
chimes, repetend, echo, reëcho, encore, dilogy [rare], ritornello [It.], burden of a song, refrain, undersong; rehearsal; réchauffé [F.], rifacimento [It.], recapitulation.
cuckoo (imitation) [See Imitation]; reverberation [See Resonance]; drumming (roll) [See Roll]; renewal (restoration) [See Restoration].
TWICE-TOLD TALE, chestnut [slang], old stuff [slang], old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction; periodicity [See Regularity of recurrence. Periodicity].
RECUR, revert, return, reappear; renew (restore) [See Restoration].
REHEARSE; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods, tenses and inflexions; begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, duplicate, reduplicate, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.
MONOTONOUS, ding-dong [colloq.], harping, iterative, unvaried; mocking, chiming; retold; habitual [See Habit]; another.
AFORESAID, aforenamed; above-mentioned, said.
again and again; over and over, over and over again; many times over; time and again, time after time; times without number; year after year; day by day &c.; many times, several times, a number of times; many a time, full many a time; frequently [See Frequency]; inexhaustibly, depth beyond depth.