remeditationn.
/ˌriːmɛdᵻˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /riˌmɛdəˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ A second or subsequent meditation. With of, on.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > reconsideration > [noun]
rethinking1579
second thoughts1581
recogitationc1591
reconsideration1606
after-wit1607
after-meditation1626
after-counsel1634
remeditation1642
afterthought1647
after-consideration1693
after-rumination1830
retake1922
rethink1958
1642 W. Price Serm. 28 In a kind of remeditation of what obscenities he hath beene a spectator.
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. D7v [He] gave himself to a remeditation of what he had formerly observed.
1946 J. F. De Simone Alessandro Manzoni ii. 85 As Busetto says, the transformation was successfully achieved because in the moral and poetic remeditation of the whole work Manzoni was able to divest his rigorously ethical and historical tendencies of that harshness, dogmatism, and intransigence that are found in all principles which have been ordered and fixed in a system.
1983 Boundary 2 12 5 Joyce..eludes all classification: even in Ulysses there is the continual remeditation of the ‘already-said’.
2004 M. Lydon Ray Charles (rev. ed.) xxiii. 303 In the dozen years since it topped the charts, ‘Georgia’ had become a signature song for Ray, yet his countless remeditations on the theme had barely altered how he sang it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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