单词 | rethinking |
释义 | rethinkingn. The action of rethink v.; reconsideration; an instance of this, a rethink. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > reconsideration > [noun] rethinking1579 second thoughts1581 recogitationc1591 reconsideration1606 after-wit1607 after-meditation1626 after-counsel1634 remeditation1642 afterthought1647 after-consideration1693 after-rumination1830 retake1922 rethink1958 1579 S. Brinkley tr. G. Loarte Exercise Christian Life xxi. f. 119v The oft thinking and rethinking of the life and passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christe. 1741 tr. J. J. Rutledge Mem. Julia de M— II. vii. 64 My credulity and admiration were at first predominant; but, by dint of thinking and re-thinking, they began to give place to doubts and scruples. 1827 in Chinese Repository 14 (1845) 169 On rethinking, he considers it quite improper to admit the question for a moment. 1881 R. Adamson Fichte 122 Philosophy is thus the re-thinking of experience. 1919 J. L. Garvin Econ. Found. Peace xviii. 440 The duty of rethinking is not only for some men, but more or less for all men, whatever their previous views. 1955 Times 25 Aug. 7/4 Much rethinking on the subject of disarmament has been going on in London and Washington. 1977 Meanjin 36 64 Their language more clearly becomes that of inheritors of the shake-ups and rethinkings of the Fifties and Sixties. 2004 P. de Rosa Fatal Flaw Christianity 24 A new God for a new age, an age of history and science, calls for the root-and-branch rethinking of everything. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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