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reconversion|riːkənˈvɜːʃən|
[re- 5 a.]
Conversion back to a previous state. a. Of persons, spec. in religious sense.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 181 The Popes refusall to reblesse the King upon his sodaine reconversion. a1628F. Grevil Sidney (1652) 237 Those cob-webs of re-conversion in Queen Maryes dayes, I had no intent to meddle with. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. Ded., He could recount his Re⁓conversion, after his foul Offences of Adulterie and Murder. 1778Johnson in Boswell 30 Mar., How often are the primary motives of our greatest actions as small as Sibbald's, for his re-conversion. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. (Bohn) 97, I cannot doubt, that the difference of my metaphysical notions from those of Unitarians in general contributed to my final re-conversion to the whole truth in Christ. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. App. 680 The Danish Chroniclers assert a repentance and reconversion.
b. Of things; spec. alteration (of industry, etc.) to peacetime requirements after war; in recent use, conversion by adaptation of function, modernization; also, an object so converted.
1783Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 426 The re⁓conversion of air into water, by decomposing it in conjunction with inflammable air. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 83 The reconversion of the sedimentary into the crystalline by subterranean fire. 1881Armstrong in Nature XXIV. 449/1 Internal as well as external work may be reconverted into heat, but until the reconversion takes place, the heat which did the work does not exist as heat. 1944Sun (Baltimore) 21 Jan. 7/2 ‘Reconversion’ in the foreign field.., like the reconversion of domestic industry from war to peace production, is one of our major problems. 1946News Chron. 2 Mar. 2/2 The difficulties of demobilisation and of industrial re-conversion. 1956Planning XXII. 239 Reconversion in industry is an essential consequence of the introduction of the common market... Reconversion as defined in the [Spaak] report means modernisation or rationalisation of production methods to cope with increased competition. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 14-b/4 (Advt.), He covers reconversions as well as new buildings. |