retransfiguration

Noun

retransfiguration (countable and uncountable, plural retransfigurations)

1. transfiguration again
   • I hear of hundreds of miles of sidings, acres of covered sheddings, scores of miles of drain pipes, all ready and waiting to be put down. But organises and officially sanctioned attempt to ruin the post-war possibility of the retransfiguration and resurrection of an industry that has ever received...1918, The Autocar, Volume 41, Iliffe, Sons & Sturmey, page 233
   • Some such retransfiguration of things that had sunk into triteness blesses the fortunate holidaymaker.1929, Charles Edward Montague, The Right Place, Chatto and Windus, page 14