reattainmentn.
/ˌriːəˈteɪnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌriəˈteɪnm(ə)nt/ The action or an act of regaining something, esp. a state or condition.
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the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > back or again
coveringc1230
restaurationa1398
recoverance1398
retrievingc1425
recoverc1430
readeption1471
recuperation1481
recovery1523
retiring1548
repossessing1576
regetting1585
recoverment1591
repossession1592
refetching1624
regainment1642
recooper1652
reattainment1661
reacquisition1719
revendication1760
retrievation1806
retrieve1853
regain1860
1661 J. Davies tr. D. Blondel Treat. Sibyls Index sig. Qq 3v The third main Tenet..concerning the re-attainment of a Terrestrial Paradise..for some of the Saints after their Resurrection.
a1790 W. Sellon Sermons (1792) xvii. 321 We are not so sensibly affected with the continuance of a good which we have long possessed, as at the reattainment of it, after it has been for some time taken from us.
1800 S. Gunning Fashionable Involvem. II. ii. 16 What is there a woman of spirit will think it difficult to sacrifice for the re-attainment of her forfeited liberty?
1853 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 426 The resurrection of Athens, and her reattainment..of something like imperial dignity.
1906 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 198 8 One of the chief difficulties encountered..is the reattainment of the state of ‘normal’ activity in a given series of experiments.
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. xiii. 150 The reattainment of unity.
2006 A. McCalla Creationist Deb. iv. 49 The entire regression into bullishness and reattainment of rationality took little more than a millennium to complete.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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