repotentize

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verb

To restore to potency.

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verbrepotentize (third-person singular simple present repotentizes, present participle repotentizing, simple past and past participle repotentized)

present singular third person repotentizes · participle present repotentizing · participle past repotentized · past repotentized · alternative repotentise

  1. To restore to potency.

    He said that he will repotentize (sodhon) the amulet.

    1994, Vandana Goswami, Potent Words, Potent Objects
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    The second way Novalis seeks to repotentize his thought is by striving to evoke feelings conducive to liminality.

    1998, Joseph Frederick Bailey, Theorizing night vision: Novalis's "Hymnen an die Nacht.", page 209

    The “yeh” sound repotentizes the original vibration and brings the light from atziluth to b’riah.

    2004, Joseph-Mark Cohen, Kabbalistic Healing Workbook - Tree of LifeBodywork & The Sonic Merkavah

    However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing.

    2012, Rebecca S. Watson, Chaos Uncreated

Origin

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