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Repeated vs Continued - What's the difference?

repeated | continued |

As verbs the difference between repeated and continued

is that repeated is past tense of repeat while continued is past tense of continue.

As adjectives the difference between repeated and continued

is that repeated is having been said or done again while continued is prolonged; unstopped.

repeated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (repeat)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having been said or done again.
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  • The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often repeated—conceptual modification.
  • Sequential.
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  • The repeated exposure, over decades, to most taxa here treated has resulted in repeated' modifications of both diagnoses and discussions, as initial ideas of the various taxa underwent—often ' repeated —conceptual modification.

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    continued

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated) Prolonged; unstopped.
  • * 1797 , , J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hi?tory , page 20,
  • and for the pronunciation of F , a more continued ?ound is nece??ary than for that of any of the con?onants.
  • * 1819 [1736], (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature , page 93,
  • But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued , oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.
  • * 1820 , A. P. Wilson Philip, A Treatise on Fevers: Including the Various Species of Simple and Eruptive Fevers , page 57,
  • Instead of becoming more continued , intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.
  • Uninterrupted.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (continue)
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