True, America is free; but in order to establish tradition some one must be a repetend--a repeating decimal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen] Reference

America is free; but in order to establish tradition some one must be a repetend -- a repeating decimal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference

A musical or mnemonic device akin to the refrain was that sing-song species of repetend so familiar in ballad language.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

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 mediaeval habit of mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference