rereform

present singular third person rereforms · participle present rereforming · participle past rereformed · past rereformed

1. To reform again.

   They have been reformed and rereformed.

   1938, United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio), Annals of Cleveland, page 14

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   The constitution, recently reformed, was again, under these new auspices, rereformed, and a law which necessitated the consent of the Cortes to the marriage of the queen repealed.

   1874, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston

plural rereforms

1. An act of rereforming.

   He then turned himself, in good earnest, to the work of his rereform.

   1860, John Lord, A Modern History, from the time of Luther to the fall of Napoleon.

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   Then, my dear sir, what is Methodism but a rereform from the Roman Catholic Church?

   1870, The Woman in Purple and Scarlet

   To this Parliament Flood introduced a sweeping measure of reform. A scene Flood's of wild uproar was the consequence, the Bill was thrown out by a large majority; no better success attended its rereform.

   1913, A History of England, page 1136

   The reformers are hardly in before they have to be rereformed .... The whole thing seems to be an endless chain of turn the rascals out until it would take the apparatus and memory of a train dispatcher to know who is in jail and where and who are on the road.

   1972, James P. Walsh, Ethnic militancy: an Irish Catholic prototype, page 86

   We are actually in the midst of a "rereform" movement that has been addressing some of these structural and procedural problems of state legislatures.

   1991, John G. Grumm, Russell D. Murphy, Governing States and Communities: Organizing for Popular Rule