readvancementn.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vii. 472/1 To the seruice of God, and readuancement of the Crosse of Christ.

1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli State Florence in Wks. vii. 138 They had use of the People for their readvancement to any Place of Authority.

1821 J. Townley Illustr. Biblical Lit. (1856) ii. v. 122 After..the readvancement of Cardinal Beaton to power, the spread of the principles of the Reformation was for several years considerably checked.

1855 S. F. Haven Archæol. U.S. i. 4 The readvancement of an ancient theory..which would give the New World precedence of the Old one, as sooner prepared for the occupancy of human and brute creation.

1944 P. Boardman P. Geddes xviii. 458 Readvancement of their concept of the Cell-Cycle as of vital significance to pathology and Cytology.

1976 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 120 62/2 The Younger Dryas brought a drop in world temperatures and sea levels and the last major glacial readvancement.

1997 Econ. Hist. Rev. 50 391 With its postwar re-emergence, however, the readvancement of German big business into world markets has been of decisive importance.