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▪ I. reˈconquest, n.|riː-|
[re- 5 a; perh. after obs. F. reconqueste (16th c. in Godef.).]
The (or an) act of conquering again; recovery by conquest.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 164 There was no doubte of the regayning or reconquest. 1598Bacon Lett. to Essex conc. Tyrone Wks. 1879 II. 17/1 A full re-conquest of those parts of the country. 1668Dryden Even. Love i. i, Look on those grave plodding fellows, that pass by us, as though they were meditating the re-conquest of Flanders. 1746H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 172 All the letters by last post make it a re-conquest. 1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 48 In the reconquest of his native country. 1884Manch. Exam. 6 Oct. 4/7 The present expedition was not for the reconquest of the Soudan.
▪ II. † reconquest, v. Obs. rare.
[f. re- + conquest v.: cf. obs. F. reconquester (1582 in Godef.).]
trans. = reconquer. Also const. to.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 106 Sum gracious persone that may have grace and poware, to reconquest it and bring it to the kynde airis. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 417 b, Many excellente parsonages are condemned in Englande, beinge wholy reconquested to the Pope. |