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▪ I. readˈvance, v. [re- 5 a.] To advance again. a. In transitive senses of the vb.
1611Florio, Rinalzare, to raise againe, to readuance. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Pet. iii. 17 How able he is to re⁓advance the dejected. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. ii. 162 To re-advance all the Noble Families in Rome, that began to lessen and decay in their splendour. 1828Southey in Q. Rev. XXXVIII. 574 It recedes from none of its claims, though it may wait the convenient season for re⁓advancing them. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. (1852) 266 note, We are swinging upon a hinge in advancing and re⁓advancing such maxims. b. In intransitive senses.
1611Cotgr., Remonter,..to reascend; readuance. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. i. lxxxv, Which if they misse, they yet should readvance To former height. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 142 The Vice-Chancellor retreated to Trinity College... This done, he readvanceth to St. John's. 1813Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary (1861) II. 254 The Russians re⁓advanced to Peterswalde,..but were checked at Grossubel. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. xiii. §3 The tide which has receded, instantly begins to re-advance. So readˈvancement; readˈvancing vbl. n.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vii. §1. 514 To the seruice of God, and re-aduancement of the Crosse of Christ. 1611Cotgr., Rehaulsement, a readuancing. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vi. §99 The re-advancing upon it and taking it. ▪ II. readˈvance, n. Chiefly Geol. [f. the vb.] A renewed advance.
1879Geol. Mag. Decade II. VI. 250 The recurring glacial conditions were too insignificant to cause a re-advance of the ice-sheet. 1927Peake & Fleure Apes & Men 29 With the re-advance of the temperate forest in Europe, as the climate improved, most of them [sc. the mammals] finally disappeared. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man. Brit. Isles ii. 45 In the north of the British Isles, three readvances during the general retreat of the ice are marked by ‘moraines’. |