re-presentationn.2
/ˌriːˌprɛz(ɛ)nˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌriˌprɛznˈteɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌriˌpriˌzɛnˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Presentation of a person or thing for a second or further time; an instance of this. Cf. re-presentment n.2Sometimes difficult to distinguish from representation n.1 6b.
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1805 ‘E. de Acton’ Nuns of Desert II. 196 Mr. Veerman made his atonement in a re-presentation of Miss Blenheim.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 143 In order to discriminate it..from mere reflection and re-presentation.
1865 R. Lowndes Introd. Philos. Primary Beliefs 44 The remembrance then, is properly termed a ‘re-presentation’; since it is necessarily accompanied by a belief that it is a second presentation of that which has been presented to our consciousness before.
1949 Isis 40 10 This re-presentation of sixth-century concepts in the fifth century was far from being either quiet or little publicized.
2000 J. Coleman Hist. Polit. Thought II. ii. 93 Aquinas provides a coherent re-presentation of Aristotle's discussion of perception.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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