reconversionn.
/ˌriːkənˈvəːʃn/, U.S. /ˌrikənˈvərʒ(ə)n/ 1. The action or an act of converting a person back or again, esp. to a particular religion.
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society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > a second time
reconversiona1628
a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) xvii. 237 Those cobwebs of re-conversion in Queen Maryes dayes, I had no intent to meddle with.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. Ded. He could recount his Reconversion, after his foul Offences of Adulterie and Murder.
1690 T. Brown (title) The Reasons of Mr. Joseph Hains the Player's Conversion & Re-conversion.
1701 R. Kingston Life W. Fuller i. 5 His Infidel Mother-in-law would by no means be satisfied with the reality, either of Protestations, or Tears, nothing belike would convince her of his Reconversion.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 189 Johnson: How often are the primary motives of our greatest actions as small as Sibbald's, for his re-conversion.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (Bohn) 97 I cannot doubt, that the difference of my metaphysical notions from those of Unitarians in general contributed to my final re-conversion to the whole truth in Christ.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 665 The Danish chroniclers assert a repentance and reconversion.
1924 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 7 Nov. 1/5 Churchill..it was generally supposed, in view of his so recent reconversion to the conservative creed,..would be required to serve a sort of novitiate period in one of the less important offices.
1976 W. Katiyo Son of Soil ii. 32 They had lost their faith at the time of their visit to Rugare's late father. Soon after this reconversion Chiko was baptized.
1997 Sunday Times 26 Oct. (1000 Makers of Music Suppl.) 156/2 Moses und Aaron (1932), which preceded his reconversion to Judaism, is still kept on the fringe of the operatic repertory by its enormous performing difficulties.
2004 H. Mukhia Mughals of India i. 39 Reconversion went on apace, usually of Muslim women married to Hindu men.
2. The action or an act of converting something again, or back to a previous state; alteration (of industry, etc.) to peacetime requirements after war; conversion by adaptation of function; modernization. Also: an object so converted.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [noun]
gain-turning1340
reversion1547
regression1583
unmaking1587
retrogradation1638
repedation1646
metathesis1653
recommencement1655
antecedency1656
remutation1692
reconversion1759
relapsing1772
recurrence1789
revertal1824
switcheroo1933
1759 R. Dossie Inst. Exper. Chem. II. v. ii. 378 Depravation of iron, by the fumes of mineral sulphur, or the vitriolic acid,..again bring it back to the state of crude immalleable iron; with the reconversion it is again capable of to common forged iron, or steel.
1784 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. 1783 (Royal Soc.) 73 426 The re~conversion of air into water, by decomposing it in conjunction with inflammable air.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 83 The reconversion of the sedimentary into the crystalline by subterranean fire.
1881 W. Armstrong in Nature 8 Sept. 449/1 Internal as well as external work may be reconverted into heat, but until the reconversion takes place, the heat which did the work does not exist as heat.
1944 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Jan. 7/2 ‘Reconversion’ in the foreign field.., like the reconversion of domestic industry from war to peace production, is one of our major problems.
1946 News Chron. 2 Mar. 2/2 The difficulties of demobilisation and of industrial re-conversion.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 14 b/4 (advt.) He covers reconversions as well as new buildings.
2002 H. Zimmermann Money & Security 62 The British either had to sell abroad or had to accelerate a costly reconversion of these industries.
3. Logic. The action of reconvert v. 3; the fact or process of transposing again the subject and predicate of a proposition. Cf. conversion n. 4. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > conversion of a proposition > [noun]
conversion1551
reciprocation1588
reconversion1849
1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) §53. 216 We ought to be able to recover by re-conversion the same judgment we at first converted.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 271 It can hardly be said that the logicians contemplated the reconversion of such a proposition as the preceding.
1884 J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exercises Formal Logic i. iii. 71 Simple conversion... We do not lose any part of the information given us by the convertend, and we can pass back to it by re-conversion of the converse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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