reidentify

present singular third person reidentifies · participle present reidentifying · participle past reidentified · past reidentified

1. transitiveTo identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.

   To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data?

   2019 October 4, Stephen Holland, Ethics and Governance of Public Health Information, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 68

   Antonyms: deidentify, anonymize

2. intransitiveTo identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).

   The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…]

   2017 July 12, Thomas Robbins, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Routledge, →ISBN

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   By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the[…]

   2021 June 17, Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56

   ... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and […]

   2022 April 19, Dwight Newman, Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 454