单词 | rehabitation |
释义 | rehabitationn. The action or an act of reinhabiting a country, area, house, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] > again rehabitation1611 reinhabitation1611 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rihabitanza, a rehabitation. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 367 There shall bee a frequent rehabitation of the whole land of Israel. 1794 H. Diot Hist. Descr. Dunkirk 27 The French court turned its thoughts towards the rehabitation of this place. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xiv in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 312 To contribute something to the rehabitation of sae auld ane house. 1868 Galaxy Aug. 269 His earliest and life-long ambition..was the recovery of, and his own rehabitation in, this ancestral home. 1919 E. S. Jenison Hist. Province of Sicily vi. 114 Augustus, by the introduction of colonists, succeeded in the partial rehabitation of some five or six towns. 1980 Ethics 90 406 (note) ‘Urban gentrification’ refers to the rehabilitation and rehabitation of central city housing by middle-class individuals. 1991 Nucl. Energy June 129/3 Caesium..would most likely prove to be very difficult to remove from brick structures if rehabitation were ever contemplated. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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