mantralike

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English

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Etymology

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From mantra +‎ -like.

Adjective

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mantralike (comparative more mantralike, superlative most mantralike)

  1. Resembling a mantra; fervent and often repeated.
    • 2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll[1], →ISBN, page 173:
      By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.