reunitionn.
/ˌriːjᵿˈnɪʃn/, /ˌriːjuːˈnɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌrijuˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ The action of reuniting; reunion; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > [noun] > again
reunion1576
reunitingc1585
reunition1615
reunification1872
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια i. viii. 54 There is a double reunition of dissolued parts.
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God xvii. 190 The dissolution of Christ's body and soule, and their reunition in glory and immortality.
1693 tr. N. Knatchbull Annot. New Test. 93 I believe the Resurrection of the body, and its reunition with the Soul.
1701 S. Parker Sylva i. 26 As if the Apostle..shou'd not most properly be conceiv'd to speak at large..of the Persons after the Reunition of the Souls and Bodies, to this Effect.
1848 E. A. Poe Eureka 33 We are required to conceive merely that no neighboring atoms are of similar form—no atoms which can ever approximate, until their inevitable rëunition at the end.
1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 12 June He argues for the reunition of the English-speaking peoples.
1942 J. Needham Biochem. & Morphogenesis iii. 528 Dissociation and reunition in the sponges has been known for a very long time, but the facts are as extraordinary as those of insect metamorphosis.
1971 Science 27 Aug. 778/3 Secondary contact, with hybridization or reunition of populations that did not become reproductively isolated, occurred in periods of reexpansion.
2002 M. Stallard Kansas City Chiefs Encycl. 22/1 ‘Sooner or later, it was probably going to happen that Carl and I would be back together again..,’ Vermeil said of the reunition with his old friend.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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