Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of reshift
nounreshifting (countable and uncountable, plural reshiftings)
plural reshiftings
- countableuncountableShifting again.
I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
1811, Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation
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