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reˈword, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To put into words again; to repeat.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 143 Bring me to the Test And I the matter will re-word. 1874Tennyson in Mem. (1897) II. 159, I bolted out a long metaphysical term which he could not re-word to me. 1885Yeats Song of Happy Shepherd Poems (1899) 186 They thy comforters will be, Rewording in melodious guile Thy fretful words.
2. To re-echo.
1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 1 Off a hill whose concaue wombe reworded A plaintfull story from a sistring vale.
3. To put into different words.
1882G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 431, I..had to leave out or reword all passages speaking of God's kingdom as falling. 1892Proc. Amer. Mission Assoc. 78 The reports..lead me to believe that my subject needs if not to be re-worded, to be defined. 1894Daily News 1 Sept. 6/2 Titles are re⁓worded, re-arranged, perhaps curtailed, or expanded.
Hence reˈwording vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1650T. May Life Satyrical Puppy (1657) 42 Farwell the lowde Trumpet with whose voyce rewording Ecchoes scolde. 1849Sears Regeneration iii. i. (1859) 126 The wording and rewording of liturgies is not prayer. |