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re-edify

re-edify is the alternative form of reedify.

Meaning of reedify

Verb

reedify (third-person singular simple present reedifies, present participle reedifying, simple past and past participle reedified)

  1. (transitive) To edify anew; to build again after destruction.
    • Return'd from Babylon by leave of kings / Their lords, whom God dispos'd, the houfe of God / They first re-edify ; and for a while / In mean estate live moderate ; till, grown / In wealth and multitude, factious they grow :1667, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Forms of re-edify

third-person singular presentre-edifies
present participlere-edifying
past participlere-edified
pastre-edified

Questions about re-edify

What is re-edify the alternative form of?
Re-edify is the alternative form of reedify.

Words near re-edify in the dictionary

  1. re-echos
  2. re-edge
  3. re-edged
  4. re-edges
  5. re-edging
  6. re-edify
  7. re-edit
  8. re-edited
  9. re-editing
  10. re-edition
  11. re-editions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-edify (page history and authors); reedify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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