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redescends

redescends is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 redescends

What is redescends the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Redescends is the third-person singular simple present indicative of redescend.

Words near redescends in the dictionary

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

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