Vocabulary Word
Word: rote
Definition: repetition; memorization through repetition without understanding; Ex. learn poetry by rote
Definition: repetition; memorization through repetition without understanding; Ex. learn poetry by rote
Sentences Containing 'rote'
As in repeating a well-known song, so in instincts, one action follows another by a sort of rhythm; if a person be interrupted in a song, or in repeating anything by rote, he is generally forced to go back to recover the habitual train of thought: so P.
This, then, being the case, let not these scrupulous and prudish ideas trouble your imagination, but be assured that Lothario prizes you as you do him, and rest content and satisfied that as you are caught in the noose of love it is one of worth and merit that has taken you, and one that has not only the four S's that they say true lovers ought to have, but a complete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see how I can repeat it by rote.
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