reëstablish

verb

Dated spelling of reestablish.

Meanings

verbreëstablish (third-person singular simple present reëstablishes, present participle reëstablishing, simple past and past participle reëstablished)

present singular third person reëstablishes · participle present reëstablishing · participle past reëstablished · past reëstablished

  1. Dated spelling of reestablish.

    It proved not difficult to reëstablish the intimacy of the two companions, on the same footing and in the same degree as heretofore.

    1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Leech and His Patient”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 164
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