reapparitionn.
/ˌriːapəˈrɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌriæpəˈrɪʃ(ə)n/ Reappearance; an instance of this.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [noun] > appearing or becoming visible > reappearance
reappearance1618
reapparition1629
1629 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum 13 With many other re-apparitions & delectable strange accidents.
1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 176 Remember thy glorious reapparition with thy Saviour.
1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 65 Sufficient to render the reapparition of the comet uncertain.
1868 Times 4 May 9/6 The crowded and brilliant audience..welcomed the reapparition of the young and prepossessing Swedish songstress on Saturday night.
1877 Catholic World Mar. 855/2 At the fourth reapparition Heine seems at last to begin to suspect that the plaintive tone is wearisome.
1883 A. Winchell World-life 281 (Cent. Dict.) Colonies, reapparitions, and other faunal dislocations in the vertical and horizontal distribution of fossil remains.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 620 The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition..Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal cloud..at first no bigger than a woman's hand.
1944 Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas) 7 Mar. 4/2 What the Times had to say on the subject of ‘European unity’ cannot fail to be interpreted in Moscow as pointing to a possible reapparition of the old ‘cordon sanitaire’.
2001 PMLA 116 160 Romanticism and its reapparition in the thought world of the postmodern signal engagements with the global that resist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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