reknow

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verb

To know again; to relearn or understand anew.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbreknow (third-person singular simple present reknows, present participle reknowing, simple past reknew, past participle reknown)

present singular third person reknows · participle present reknowing · past reknew · participle past reknown

  1. human sciencesTo know again; to relearn or understand anew.

    It is a story of human beings constantly reknowing themselves as the reciprocal of the self-reknowing of others.

    1993, Philip Allott, “Self-Determination - Absolute Right or Social Poetry?”, in Christian Tomuschat, editor, Modern Law of Self-Determination, →ISBN, page 179
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    The teacher’s special function is to lead the pupil to reknow these elements, and by thought to attain the desired knowledge.

    1885 November, E. E. White, “The Philosophy of Teaching”, in The Illinois School Journal, volume 5, number 7, page 160

    In recognizing one another in our aesthetic constructs, in coming to reknow one another, we come to reknow ourselves as well.

    1988, Nancy R. Harrison, Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women’s Text, →ISBN, page 45

    And only then, when he has recovered his true self, does he uncover, or reknow, the true distinctions, identifying erōs as a divine gift, and distinguishing between “good” and “bad” madness—a distinction that is essential if human beings are to have a true understanding of themselves and what they experience in love.

    1998, Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 17

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