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restirring

restirring noun: stirring again. Also the present participle and gerund of restir.

Noun

restirring (plural restirrings)

  1. Stirring again.
    • This idea dates back, I suppose, to the philosophy of G. H. Mead; in a more modern form it can be found in the writings of Harry Stack Sullivan (1953; see also Mullahy 1949; i952) and Daniel Miller (Miller 1961), and has had restirrings within the framework of social psychology (see Asch 1959).1968, Douglass Price-Williams, “The Philosophy of Science and the Study of Personality”, in Edward Norbeck, Douglass Price-Williams, William M. McCord, editors, The Study of Personality: An...
    • No matter what stage of evolution the soul is at, planets in these three signs indicate some type of primordial beginnings or restirrings in some aspect of spiritual life.1976, Glenn Blakesley, “The Astrology of the Soul”, in Gnostica, volume 5, number 3 (whole 39), Llewellyn Publications, page 61

Also used as

restirring is also the present participle and gerund of restir.

Examples of restirring in a sentence

  • She forced her eyes back to Creigh, drawing strength, hope from his beloved features, quelling the restirrings of fear.1988, Kimberly Cates, Crown of Mist, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 322:
  • And these recent, growing restirrings of the demand that the state’s police power be employed to protect religious feelings illustrate an important point made by Rodney Smolla: […]1991, Alan Nielsen, The Great Victorian Sacrilege: Preachers, Politics and The Passion, 1879–1884, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 236:
  • Scientists have found new things to say about these problems that are not merely restirrings of the brew of philosophical opinions we have inherited from thinkers of the past.1999, John D. Barrow, “The popularisation of science”, in Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy...
  • And the early restirrings of my romantic (if that’s the right word) life have defrosted a few insights I might not have remembered to give him as he makes his first foray into the world of women.2005, Deanna Portz, editor, Men’s Health Today 2005: Get Ahead in Everything You Do, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 222:

Forms of restirring

pluralrestirrings

Questions about restirring

What does restirring mean?
Restirring means stirring again.
How do you use restirring in a sentence?
She forced her eyes back to Creigh, drawing strength, hope from his beloved features, quelling the restirrings of fear.
What part of speech is restirring?
Restirring is a noun.
What is the plural of restirring?
The plural of restirring is restirrings.

Words near restirring in the dictionary

  1. restipulating
  2. restipulation
  3. restipulations
  4. restir
  5. restirred
  6. restirring
  7. restirrings
  8. restirs
  9. restis
  10. restitch
  11. restitched

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