单词 | recomplication |
释义 | recomplicationn. The action or process of complicating something again; an instance or example of this. ΚΠ 1874 T. H. Green in D. Hume Treat. Human Nature I. Introd. 41 Why make them over again by abstraction and recomplication? 1882 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. III. 303 Under Roman dominion, there was a re-complication caused by the superposing of Roman governing agencies upon native governing agencies. 1954 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 3 145 Such patching and refashioning of the law will not commend itself to the community which the law exists to serve, nor will it serve its own ends by complication and recomplication. 1999 Social Res. (Nexis) 22 Mar. Such processes of reduction and recomplication are themselves immensely complicated. 2003 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 9 July 16 From the classic ‘Op’..paintings of the 1960s, through the stripe paintings that followed, into the recomplications of the 1980s and 1990s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1874 |
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