ingeminate
/ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.nət/
ingeminate means redoubled. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 78 out of 100.
ingeminate is pronounced /ɪnˈdʒɛm.ɪ.nət/.
Why “ingeminate” is a great word
INGEMINATE — [Verb] To say or utter something repeatedly with accumulating force; redoubled or reiterated. From the Latin ingeminō ("to repeat, redouble"), from in- (intensive prefix) + geminō ("to double, repeat"). First attested in English in the late 16th century. Unlike "iterate," which suggests a flat, procedural restatement, or "reduplicate," which denotes a formal or acoustic doubling, to ingeminate is to press a point with deepening urgency. It is the desperate "no, no, no" of a child, the solemn tolling of a funeral bell, or the redoubled plea of a lover—a vocal echo that seeks not to clarify, but to carve a truth deeper into the resistant air. In the end, it is the belief that to say a thing once is merely to state it; to ingeminate is to inscribe it.
Etymology
Borrowed from the participle stem of Latin ingeminō (“repeat, reiterate”).
adj
- redoubled“It is an ingeminate expression of our labours . And that supposes us to have faculties capable of improvement”
- reiterated
verb
- To say (a statement, word etc.) two or more times; to reiterate, to emphasize through repetition.“we found a black pavillion; in it three old Arabians; who, out of their Alcoran ingeminated a dolefull requiem to their Brothers carcasse, over which they sat […]”