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redescended

redescended is the simple past and past participle of redescend.

Meaning of redescend

Verb

redescend (third-person singular simple present redescends, present participle redescending, simple past and past participle redescended)

  1. (ambitransitive) To descend again (often following an ascent)
    • To thee sweet Spirit I return
      That love wherwith my heart doth burn,
      And these bless’d notions of my brain
      I now breath up to thee again,
      O let them redescend, and still
      My soul with holy raptures fill.1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67

Questions about redescended

What is redescended the simple past and past participle of?
Redescended is the simple past and past participle of redescend.

Words near redescended in the dictionary

  1. rederives
  2. rederiving
  3. Reders
  4. redes
  5. redescend
  6. redescended
  7. redescending
  8. redescends
  9. redescent
  10. redescents
  11. redescribe

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