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rereform

rereform verb: to reform again.

Verb

rereform (third-person singular simple present rereforms, present participle rereforming, simple past and past participle rereformed)

  1. To reform again.
    • The constitution, recently reformed, was again, under these new auspices, rereformed, and a law which necessitated the consent of the Cortes to the marriage of the queen repealed.1874, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston
    • They have been reformed and rereformed.1938, United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio), Annals of Cleveland, page 14

Noun

rereform (plural rereforms)

  1. An act of rereforming.
    • He then turned himself, in good earnest, to the work of his rereform.1860, John Lord, A Modern History, from the time of Luther to the fall of Napoleon.
    • Then, my dear sir, what is Methodism but a rereform from the Roman Catholic Church?1870, The Woman in Purple and Scarlet

Examples of rereform in a sentence

  • A scene Flood's of wild uproar was the consequence, the Bill was thrown out by a large majority; no better success attended its rereform.1913, A History of England, page 1136:
  • The reformers are hardly in before they have to be rereformed ....1972, James P. Walsh, Ethnic militancy: an Irish Catholic prototype, page 86:
  • We are actually in the midst of a "rereform" movement that has been addressing some of these structural and procedural problems of state legislatures.1991, John G. Grumm, Russell D. Murphy, Governing States and Communities: Organizing for Popular Rule:

Forms of rereform

Verb
third-person singular presentrereforms
present participlerereforming
past participlerereformed
pastrereformed
Noun
pluralrereforms

Origin of rereform

From re- + reform.

Questions about rereform

What does rereform mean?
Rereform means to reform again.
How do you use rereform in a sentence?
A scene Flood's of wild uproar was the consequence, the Bill was thrown out by a large majority; no better success attended its rereform.
What part of speech is rereform?
Rereform can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of rereform?
The past tense of rereform is rereformed.

Words near rereform in the dictionary

  1. rerefined
  2. rerefiner
  3. rerefiners
  4. rerefines
  5. rerefining
  6. rereform
  7. rereformed
  8. rereforming
  9. rereforms
  10. rerefrigerate
  11. rerefrigerated

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