re-revisen.
/ˈriːrᵻˌvʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈrirəˌvaɪz/, /ˈririˌvaɪz/ Printing. rare.
A second or further revise (revise n. 3).
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > proof > second proof
re-proof1792
re-revise1857
1857 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 184/1 I require to see a proof, a revise, a re-revise..of all my productions, especially verse.
1895 Daily News 27 May 8/3 Balzac literally re-wrote his works on proofs, and on revises, and re-revises.
1911 E. T. Cook Life of John Ruskin iii. 358 He carried on the process to the stage of proofs, revises, and re-revises.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
re-revisev.
/ˌriːrᵻˈvʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌrirəˈvaɪz/, /ˌririˈvaɪz/ transitive. To revise again (in various senses). Also intransitive.
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the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)] > again
rechange?1592
remodify1763
re-revise1786
reshape1794
to shape over1875
1786 W. Cowper Let. 3 Apr. (1981) II. 510 I thought of detaining the third, fourth, and fifth books till I should have re-revised the first.
1787 J. Pinkerton Diss. Scythians Pref. p. xv No toil has been spared to guard against mistakes: this little work has been revised, and re-revised, and revised again.
1808 F. Carey Let. 20 Apr. in T. P. Platt Facts (ed. 2) 23 We never print any Translation till every word has been revised, and re-revised.
1898 School Rev. 6 253 In teaching, repeat and re-repeat, revise and re-revise.
1971 BioScience 21 817/3 The tape scripts had been re-revised and shortened again.
1989 Times (Nexis) 2 Mar. [The students] reacted angrily..to moves to have them ‘re-revise’ for supplementary exams in the autumn.
2008 M. Sidel Law & Society in Vietnam 48 Once again there are calls to re-revise the Constitution.
Derivatives
re-reˈvised adj.
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the world > time > change > [adjective] > varying or modifying > modified > again
re-revised1829
1829 Sc. Jurist 1 362/1 The Lord Ordinary having considered the re-revised cases and whole process, Sustains the defences.
1955 B. Shwadran Power Struggle in Iraq v. 130 The death blow to the British re-revised draft resolution was delivered on October 19.
2002 J. Richardson War, Sci. & Terrorism i. i. 23 In his re-revised English version of Histoire de France, André Maurois puts the French losses at 10,000 killed.
re-reˈvising n.
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1806 R. Southey Let. 17 June in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 44 What with revising and re-revising over and over again, they will amount to something like it at last.
1978 Mod. Philol. 76 207 He was infinitely patient, never wearying of revising and rerevising to meet objections.
2002 M. Broemmel Miller Moth 65 A revisionist fad made him the villain of the piece but in the re-revising of his story he comes out quite well.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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