reiterated
English
reiterate
English
Verb
(reiterat)
To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.
- Let me reiterate my opinion.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 23
, author=Angelique Chrisafis
, title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election
, work=the Guardian
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, passage=He said France clearly wanted to “close one page and open another”. He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe’s crisis: “My final duty, and I know I’m being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment.”}}
* Shakespeare
- You never spoke what did become you less / Than this; which to reiterate were sin.
to say or do (something) repeatedly
* Milton
- That with reiterated crimes he might / Heap on himself damnation.
Usage notes
Although iterate” and ”reiterate””’ are similar, ”iterate” indicates that the action is performed for each of a set of items, while ””’reiterate indicates a more general repetition.
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mentioned
English
mention
English
Noun
(en noun )
A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxi. 16
- I will make mention of thy righteousness.
* Shakespeare
- And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
Verb
(en verb )
To make a short reference to something.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= End of the peer show
, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.
To utter an word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
* 2006 , Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible , Moody Publishers (ISBN 9780802480354), page 140
- I can illustrate this by mentioning the word lead. Now you have no way of knowing for sure which meaning I have in mind until I give it some context by using it in a sentence.
* 2009 , Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach , Walter de Gruyter (ISBN 9783110205893), page 124
- If the verbatimness view derives from the popular notion that DST repeats ‘the actual words spoken’, a second line of thought takes its cue from Quine’s (1940: 23–26, 1960: 146–156) philosophical distinction between words which are “used” vs. words which are merely “mentioned ”.
* 2013 , Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating , Open Court (ISBN 9780812697742)
Derived terms
* not to mention
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