battologize

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English

Etymology

From battology +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

  1. To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
    • 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:
      after they have battologized Lla y-lala, or Hilula, i.e. Praises, they iterate another to this effect

References

battologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.