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A word, sound, or phrase that occurs over and over; A refrain; Also: (Mathematics) The digit or group of digits that occurs infinitely in a certain type of decimal.

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  • True, America is free; but in order to establish tradition some one must be a repetend--a repeating decimal.
  • America is free; but in order to establish tradition some one must be a repetend -- a repeating decimal.
  • A musical or mnemonic device akin to the refrain was that sing-song species of repetend so familiar in ballad language:
  • Artifice and ballad preciosity have been cultivated more sedulously in the south, with a learned use of the repetend, archaism of style, and imitation of the quaint...
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