reconceptionn.
/ˌriːkənˈsɛpʃn/, U.S. /ˌrikənˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/ Renewed or new conception; an instance of this; something reconceived.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > new
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1656 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum (new ed.) ii. 4 The expressed Word: which hath so coagulated it self in its re-conception to its own expression.
1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. 95 A small Embryon or reconception of that lately forfeited image, which..had born the perfect likeness of the Creator.
1779 J. Duché Disc. I. xi. 207 Thou hast, within thee, a Seed of Eternal Life, a Birth of the Triune God,..a Reconception of the Light and Love of God.
1888 Harper's Mag. Nov. 964/1 He works back to a ‘reconception’ of Christ through his work among the London poor.
1910 V. de Cleyre Dominant Idea 5 The modern reconception of Materialism has done a wholesome thing in pricking the bubble of such conceit and restoring man and his ‘soul’ to its ‘place in nature’.
1984 J. Macquarrie In Search of Deity iii. 40 This would be only part of a more general reconception of theism in dialectical terms.
1993 Time 20 Dec. 66/1 The reconception involves very little change in the text.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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