Historical Examples. 1  The commonest rhythmical licences are inversion of accent and initial truncation. 2  The harm of it is, first of all, this, that it is an inversion of the true order. 3  What is remarkable in the scenery is, that its sublimity is an inversion of the sublimity of almost all other grand scenery.
Word Origin & History. iterate 1533, to do again, repeat, back-formation from iteration (1477), from L. iterationem (nom. iteratio) repetition, noun of action from iterare do again, repeat, from iterum again.. To repeat these things in the ears of well read Catholics, is to iterate a thrice-told tale.
Worded definition, a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes blackÂ·birdÂ· from blackÂ· birdÂ·.