battologize

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verb

To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.

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Meanings

verbbattologize (third-person singular simple present battologizes, present participle battologizing, simple past and past participle battologized)

present singular third person battologizes · participle present battologizing · participle past battologized · past battologized

  1. To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.

    after they have battologized Lla y-lala, or Hilula, i.e. Praises, they iterate another to this effect

    1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC

Origin

From battology + -ize.

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battologize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/battologize

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Chicago

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