单词 | reassumption |
释义 | reassumptionn. The act of reassuming something; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > [noun] > taking back or again retaking1436 gain-taking1538 reassumption1611 replevin1619 withdrawment1640 retrotraction1673 resumption1694 retrosusception1827 take-back1873 snatch-back1905 the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > something repeated overword?a1513 sanctus1594 reassumption1611 dixit1628 overcome?a1800 parrot cry1814 stereotype1850 repetend1874 parrot-echo1892 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > reversion > [noun] > reassuming possession of land or rights resumption1443 reassumption1701 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Reassuntióne A reassumption. 1647 R. Steward Lett. at Oxf. 36 This title..will go as farre as a law, and that is we conceive farr enough, for it gives God a propriety in such lands, and so keeps men from a re-assumption. 1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. xi. 469 Ver. 11..is but a Repetition or Reassumption of this. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 12 He did not send his Dutchmen home again. No Reassumptions in his Reign were known. 1815 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 13 55 The return from Elba and the reassumption of the throne. 1858 Ladies' Repository Mar. 190/1 Gross, material life, and its gradual reassumption of a diviner spiritual essence as civilization advances. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xix. 274 It was..re-asserting itself, the inviolable moon. And the rays were hastening in in thin lines of light, to return to the strengthened moon, that shook upon the water in triumphant reassumption. 1945 Far Eastern Surv. 14 276/2 This agreement represents the substantial reassumption, by the Soviet Union, of the interest of Tsarist Russia in railway transportation in Manchuria. 2007 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Feb. 24 Michael Dell's reassumption of full executive responsibility at Dell echoes similar upheaval at other desktop computer companies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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