1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reattempt, reassaying.

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 43 Being so often refrustrated in their reattempts.

1965 Ethnohist. 12 150 Re-attempts at agriculture may have been practiced along the stream bottoms.

1999 Boston Globe (Nexis) 27 June f7 Endless studies [of suicide] have led to predictions about who, in theory, will do what with which likelihood of success (success here meaning death) and which likelihood of re-attempt.

1589 E. Hayes in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 694 Also laying downe his determination in the Spring following, for disposing of his voyage then to be reattempted.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To reattempt, to reassaie.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 319 It was first attempted by Sersostris,..but was long after re-attempted, and in some manner effected by Philadelphus. View more context for this quotation

1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. ii. 8 I should..discourse no more of it, till the season came for re-attempting the business.

1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 285 What the Governor's Set off could not effect, was to be re-attempted by this Put off.

1850 W. G. Simms Lily & Totem xxiv. 405 It was some time before he could be persuaded to re-attempt the ascent.

1895 T. Hardy Jude iii. vi. 198 He had begun to sit in his parlour during the dark winter nights and re-attempt some of his old studies.

1904 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 24 50 What has been done should not be re-attempted.

1938 Times 16 July 11/2 Undaunted, she decided to reattempt her trudge, and after two days was overtaken on the railway by Japanese soldiers on a trolley, who offered her a lift.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) xiii. 314 There was the odd tricky moment when I..found myself out of my depth... There was some fear then,..as I reattempted some breast strokes, my nearest claim to competence.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A reattempting, a reassaying.

1992 J. A. Minahan Word like Bell i. i. 15 Memory as creation and creation as memory—the same ‘species of re-action’ Beethoven spoke of, the reattempting and ‘working out’ of ‘the basic idea [that] never leaves’ yet ‘rises [and] grows upward’ over the course of ‘a very long time’.