repurplev.
/ˌriːˈpəːpl/, U.S. /riˈpərp(ə)l/ rare.
transitive. To make purple again. Also occasionally intransitive: to become purple again.
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1590 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Canticle of Victorie 2 Nor will I Lyle againe Repurple with my pen: nor smeere the fertile plaine Of Courtras with dead grease.
1616 J. Davies Speculum Proditori in Select Second Husband sig. F4 The purple robe is oft re-purpelled With royall blood.
1869 Times 8 July 10/6 On the 24th, the ozonoscopes showed symptoms of reaction, and by the following day had re-purpled.
1871 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 379 Should I paint the morrows again In quite the colors so faint to-day, And with the imperial mulberry's stain Re-purple life's doublet of hodden-gray?
2007 L. Murray Sel. Poems 194 Bright leaks through their wigwam re-purple the skinny beans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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