reinvestituren.

a1645 J. Philipot Villare Cantianum (1659) Pref. sig. A2 He engag'd all those that had receiv'd any lands of Demeasnes of him, either by any new concession or re-investiture to hold them in Escuage.

1675 Let. Relig. Protestant-dissenters. 8 How can any labouring with this designe of a re-investiture to such Lands, more properly bestow himself and his ways, than in a diligent attendence on your Conventicles, wherein Bishops have been so often declar'd your utter Enemies?

1754 A. Berthelson Eng. & Danish Dict. at Re-invest Re-investing, re-investment or re-investiture.

1807 Cabinet Dec. 351 A day is set apart for the ceremony of the Marquis's public re-investiture and admission to his former honours.

1815 J. C. Hobhouse Substance Lett. (1816) I. 104 When the people..foresaw the re-investiture of the clergy [etc.].

1864 R. C. Trench Parables (rev. ed.) xxiv. 383 To trace the steps of his return, from the first beginnings of repentance to his full re-investiture in all the rights and privileges of a son.

1892 W. Winter Shadows of Stage xxi. 317 Trivial enough to have no higher end in view than the reinvestiture of herself with social recognition.

1931 Harvard Law Rev. 44 750 A reminiscence of a time when a change of tenants would have been accomplished by a surrender and reinvestiture.

1971 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 29 302/1 The twenty-eighth canon of the council enumerates the vestments that were to be returned to various orders of the clergy upon reinvestiture.

2004 J. B. Forrest Subnationalism in Afr. x. 215 The Uukwaluudhi, Ondonga, and Ongandjera kings simply declared their reinvestitures.