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republication|riːpʌblɪˈkeɪʃən|
[re- 5 a.]
1. A fresh promulgation of a religion or law.
1730M. Tindal (title) Christianity as old as Creation, a republication of the Religion of Nature. 1763Stukeley Palæog. Sacra Pref., Christianity is a republication of the patriarchal religion. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. iv. i. (1864) II. 168 Mohammedanism, in more respects than one, was a republication of Mosaic Judaism. 1865R. W. Dale Jew. Temp. xxii. (1877) 250 Every holy life is a visible republication of the Divine law.
2. A fresh publication of a will.
1743Swinburne's Testaments (ed. 6) vii. §14. 524 That this Republication of the first Will was a Revocation of the last. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xxxii. 502 The republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first again. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 168 The devisor knew of the death of the devisee,..after which she made a codicil that operated as a republication of her will. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy-Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 128 You should inquire whether the conveyance renders a republication of your will necessary.
3. The action of republishing (a work), or the fact of being republished.
1789H. Walpole Let. to C'tess Ossory 4 Aug., I did see, and wondered..at the republication of the long-forgotten verses on the ‘The Three Vernons’. 1841Keble in Hooker's Wks. (1888) I. p. cxv, It is hoped that this republication of his remains..will cause them to become more generally read. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 150 Much of the correspondence would bear republication in a permanent form.
b. A fresh publication of a literary work; a work published again.
1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. Pref. 5 This may rather be regarded as a new work than as a re-publication of an old one. 1856De Quincey Confess. 142 As a ‘Reader’ to the Press in the field of Greek re-publications. 1892Bookman Nov. 57/1 As the volume is so much of a republication it does not claim..detailed criticism. |