republicationn.
/ˌriːpʌblᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /riˌpəbləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/, /rəˌpəbləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. A new promulgation of a religion, or of an existing law, decree, etc. Now rare.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > again
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repromulgation1735
1671 J. Dalton Let. 21 Mar. in L. Cheves Shaftesbury Papers (2000) 291 Wee..caused a republicacon of yr s'd Orders.
1698 W. Atwood Hist. & Reasons Dependency of Ireland 163 As to what was contained in the Patent or Charter sent thither, it could be no more than a Declaratory Law, or rather Republication.
1730 M. Tindal (title) Christianity as old as Creation, a republication of the Religion of Nature.
1763 W. Stukeley Palæographia Sacra Pref. Christianity is a republication of the patriarchal religion.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. i. 9 Mohammedanism, in more respects than one, was a republication of Mosaic Judaism.
1865 R. W. Dale Jewish Temple xxii. 250 Every holy life is a visible republication of the Divine law.
1905 Times 7 Oct. 11/2 Christian science claimed to be..a new and authoritative republication of the genuine and original religion of Christ.
1937 J. W. C. Wand Hist. Early Church iii. 22 Christianity is still made to appear as a mere republication of the old religion.
2. A new publication of a will, esp. after previous revocation or invalidation; the action or fact of republishing a will.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > publication of will > fresh publication
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1682 A. Colquitt Mod. Rep. 267 The Land does not pass by this Will; the devise to Robert became void by his death, and cannot be made good by a republication.
1743 Swinburne's Testaments (ed. 6) vii. §14. 524 That this Republication of the first Will was a Revocation of the last.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxxii. 502 The republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first again.
1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 155 The devisor knew of the death of the devisee..after which she made a codicil which operated as a republication of her will.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 128 You should inquire whether the conveyance renders a republication of your will necessary.
1914 A. L. Stinson Woman under Law vi. 150 The death of a husband will not revive a will made before marriage and revoked by marriage; but there must be a republication.
1956 Calif. Law Rev. 44 173 The mere absence of provision for the wife should not prevent the republication of a will by codicil.
1997 W. E. Ellis R. W. Bingham & Southern Mystique iv. 58 Emily Overman, the Judge's personal secretary, confirmed the republication of Mary Lily's will.
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a. The action of publishing a work again; the fact of being republished.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > [noun] > republication
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republishment1794
1712 I. Mather Wo to Drunkards (ed. 2) Pref. sig. A2v The Sermons Emitted herewith, were both Preached & Printed..in 1673... I have..Encouraged the Republication of them; hoping that a Blessing may attend this, as..it did the former Impression.
1789 H. Walpole Let. 4 Aug. (1965) XXXIV. 58 I did see and wondered..at the republication of the long-forgotten verses on the ‘The Three Vernons’.
1841 J. Keble in R. Hooker Wks. I. Pref. p. cvii It is hoped that this republication of his remains..will cause them to become more generally read.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 150 Much of the correspondence would bear republication in a permanent form.
1911 Mariner′s Mirror 1 315/1 ‘Naval Tracts’ (now in course of republication by the N.R.S. [= Navy Records Society]).
1951 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 12 76 The fact that its own age regarded it [sc. A Profitable Treatise of the Anatomie of Mans Body] as authoritative is shown by its republication in 1577.
1995 Wired June 200/2 Electronic publishers should allow anybody to republish their materials, provided that republication takes place by means of a pointer to the original document.
b. A new publication of a work; a work that has been published again.
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society > communication > printing > publishing > a publication > [noun] > issue or edition > second or reissue > of literary work
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1766 D. Hume Lett. (1932) II. 96 If you think, that a Republication of the French Edition will answer the Expence, I am also willing you should do it.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. Pref. 5 This may rather be regarded as a new work than as a re-publication of an old one.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 142 As a ‘Reader’ to the Press in the field of Greek re-publications.
1892 Bookman Nov. 57/1 As the volume is so much of a republication it does not claim..detailed criticism.
1952 J. P. Smith St. Irenaeus Introd. 5 This was reprinted as an appendix to the Patrologia Orientalis republication of the text.
2002 N. Nicolson Fanny Burney vii. 108 Fanny Burney's name suffered only intermittent eclipse, and in recent years it has shone again with the republication of all her novels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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