redefinitionn.

1857 G. E. Ellis Half Cent. Unitarian Controv. 380 If we take any one of the contested problems in doctrinal or speculative theology, we find it to be involved with terms each of which asks for a re-definition, or a rectification of its popular or scholarly interpretation.

1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 106 The whole tenor of his labours was towards an assertion, purification, and redefinition of Transcendentalism.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 13 A redefinition of the status of colonies.

1956 Nature 25 Feb. 370/2 Many, and perhaps all, scientific advances involve the re-definition of terms.

1970 S. L. Barraclough in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. iv. 125 Another effect of changing technology is to force a redefinition of the traditional relations between peasants and management.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 16 Aug. e1/2 Doctors around the country are noting a democratization of cosmetic medicine, a redefinition of it as a coveted yet attainable luxury purchase.

1949 Mind 58 146 It will be convenient to call a statement in which a word is used in a high or in a low sense a redefinitional statement.

2001 Anthropol. Today 17 18 The very real dangers of splitting the world into opposed camps along the fault lines of Islam and Christianity..were only forestalled..by some redefinitional footwork on the part of the alliance's leading members.