resoftenv.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Rimollire Also to remollifie, to resoften or asswage.

1819 tr. V. M. Golovnin Recoll. Japan 3 The Jesuit writers whimsically throw into the opposite scale the length of the winter, which they describe as giving the weather time to purify itself, whilst the rains resoften it.

1889 Harper's Mag. July 250/1 In these [small furnaces or ‘glory-holes’] the workman resoftens the glass as he completes the various small objects.

1894 Duke of Argyll Burdens of Belief 90 Come burnished autumn with thy wealth of flame,..Come leaves with tints too blended for a name, And lakes resoftening lights that come from you.

1936 E. S. Bates Story of Congr. 1789–1935 iv. 174 Soberer minds..softened the originally bellicose resolutions offered in the House, which were further softened in the Senate and then resoftened in conference.

1963 J. Osborne Dental Mech. (ed. 5) i. 16 The impression is taken, chilled, the surface resoftened by flaming and the impression re-inserted.

1989 A. C. Davies Sci. & Pract. Welding (ed. 9) I. iii. 161 If the heating is too prolonged, visible crystals..separate out and the alloy resoftens.

2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. viii. 310 A polymer can be resoftened by reheating (thermoplastic) or it can harden irreversibly when fully polymerised (thermoset).

1849 Life of Tree ii. 50 Let not the reader suppose it is merely the returning warmth of air, and the re-softening of the frozen soil, that are alone necessary to recall the plant to life.

2001 Polymer Degradation & Stability 74 407 The air-modified polymer..becomes resistant to resoftening during low temperature carbonisation.