ingemination

ingemination

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˌd͡ʒɛmɪˈneɪʃən/

Noun

ingemination (plural ingeminations)

1. repetition; reduplication; reiteration
   • 1645, Daniel Featley, Dippers Dipt

     That Sacred ingemination, Amen, Amen.

   • 1869, Charles Spurgeon, The Treasury of David

     Happiness with an echo or ingemination

   • 1840 July, De Quincey, “Style”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine‎, volume 68, number 297, page 2:

     A 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?

Related terms

• Gemini