rewedv.
/ˌriːˈwɛd/, U.S. /riˈwɛd/ transitive. To wed again or a further time; to remarry. Also figurative.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > remarriage > take person as second spouse [verb (transitive)] > unite again in marriage
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1639 T. Bancroft Two Bks. Epigrammes & Epit. i. lvii. sig. C v A wanton Knight..re-weds a faire and vertuous Maid.
1661 G. Cartwright Heroick-lover v. iv. 64 Nee're call'd to mind, this body which I fed With so much care, must one day Earth re-wed.
1777 W. Combe Diabo-lady 13 Re-wed your former Peer, And taste an Hell on earth, ere you come here.
1789 ‘A. Pasquin’ Poems II. 170 The prodigal son, Re-wedded his faith, paid his dues unto Cæsar, And kiss'd the brown children of Nebuchadnezzar.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 81 Industry and commerce,..Rewedding those the Deluge once divorced.
1916 G. F. Gundelfinger New Fraternity xviii. 209 It is this which has brought us together again; it has in fact rewedded us and awakened the old love of former years.
1990 C. Paglia Sexual Personae ii. 54 One result of the disease claiming so many lives is that homosexuals have been involuntarily rewed to their shamanistic identity, fatal, sacrificial, outcast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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