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re-preˈsent, v.2|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To present again or a second time; to give back.
Early examples (without hyphen) are somewhat doubtful.
1564Palfreyman in Bauldwin Mor. Philos. To Rdr., Wee are..encouraged without feare boldly to represent and returne vnto Him such liuely fruits of His grace. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. v. iii, Thy truth, Like a transparent mirror, represents My reason with my errors. 1654Cokaine Dianea iii. 249, I afresh represented her with my love. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxvii. 380 To represent to the Christian World the Truth founded in the Gospel of Christ. 1810Naval Chron. XXIV. 451 He was first instituted in 1793, and represented in 1799. 1864Bowen Logic i. 23 The classification of the objects presented and re-presented by the subsidiary powers. 1880Athenæum 24 July 115/2 The Academy of Sciences..decided to re-present him with the books. |