reapprehension

Noun

reapprehension (uncountable)

1. The act of apprehending again; a second or renewed apprehension.
   • The Duke of Lancaster, though excepted in the same, yet in the behalfe of his friends, was not a little offended with the Bishops doings for justifying these leude persons, and making the Church a sanctuary for Rebells and Traytors, and his excommunications, a scourge to punish the Kings Officers...1641, William Prynne, ANTIPATHIE OF THE ENGLISH LORDLY PRELACIE, BOTH TO REGALL MONARCHY, AND CIVILL UNITY, pages 236-237
   • An arrest on a Sunday is absolutely void (w). If, however, a defendant arrested on a Saturday escapes he may be retaken on a Sunday, for that is not in execution of the process, but a continuance of the former imprisonment (x); and it is said that a person may be arrested on a Sunday on the Lord...1837, EDMUND ROBERT DANIELL, F. R. S., A TREATISE ON THE PRACTICE OF THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, WITH SOME PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON The Pleadings in that Court., volume 1, LAW BOOKSELLERS AND...
2. A reconsideration or new understanding of something previously known or misunderstood.
   • It will wear the cloak of humility; it will speak so plausibly, that it oftener meets with approbation than with that reapprehension which is its due.1871, The Mothers' Treasury: containing Various Pieces of Permanent Interest., volume VIII, THE BOOK SOCIETY, page 182
   • Two related aspects of postmodern mythopoetic writing are seen in these three poets: the concentration on the immanent moment unites them, but while Levertov rests in the reapprehension of archetypal, cyclic patterns, both Rukeyser and Rich have passed to historical critique of mythopoesis...1979, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, editors, Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, Indiana University Press, page 299