单词 | reincur |
释义 | reincurv. transitive. To incur again. ΚΠ 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 213 Least she re-incurre that aspersion which in former ages stuck fowlly to her. 1756 J. Witherspoon Ess. Justif. 26 Will they therefore re-incur the danger from which they have so lately escaped? 1833 Times 24 Apr. 4/5 Was it again proposed to depreciate the currency, and reincur the distress of a paper circulation? 1888 L. Carr Missouri iii. 62 To revolutionize the province..for the purpose of reincurring the obligations which such a course would have imposed. 1922 P. H. Frye Romance & Trag. vi. 246 A transmitted taint rather than a suspended judgment re-incurred for himself by every new successor to the title. 1964 19th-cent. Fiction 19 103 To contemplate Buchenwald and Dachau and the starving hordes of India and China is to reincur the guilt, accept the penalty, and be drawn into the same kinds of questions that Hawthorne asked. 2001 Med. Care 39 I-40/2 Reincurring these costs with another system represents a significant deterrent to changing allegiances. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1640 |
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