Meanings
plural ingeminations
- Repetition; reduplication; reiteration.
Happiness with an echo or ingemination
1869, Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David2 more examples
Even Chriſt himſelfe who is Amen, the faithfull witneſſe, and in whom all the promiſes of God are Yea and Amen, often coroborateth his divine Eſſayes and heavenly promiſes with that ſacred ingemination Amen, Amen; […]
1647, Daniel Featley, The dippers dipt. Or, The Anabaptiſts Duck’d and Plung’d over Head and Ears, at a Diſputation in Southwark […], 5th edition, London: […] N.B. and Richard Royſton […], page 134A song—an air—a tune, that is a short succession of notes revolving rapidly upon itself, how could that by possibility offer a field of compass sufficient for the development of great musical effects? The preparation pregnant with the future, the remote correspondence, the questions, as it were, which to a deep musical sense are asked in one passage, and answered in another; the iteration and ingemination of a given effect, moving through subtle variations that sometimes disguise the theme, sometimes fitfully reveal it, sometimes throw it out tumultuously into the daylight,—these and ten thousand forms of self-conflicting musical passion—what room could they find, what opening for utterance in so limited a field as an air or song?
1840 July, De Quincey, “Style”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 68, number 297, page 2
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