retransformationn.
/ˌriːtransfəˈmeɪʃn/, /ˌriːtrɑːnsfəˈmeɪʃn/, /rɪˌtransfəˈmeɪʃn/, /rɪˌtrɑːnsfəˈmeɪʃn/, U.S. /riˌtræn(t)sfərˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or an act of transforming again, esp. back into (also to) a former shape or condition. Also: a thing that has been transformed again or back.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > repeated
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retractationa1856
1641 T. Heywood Life of Merlin v. 40 (note) Their retransformation.
?1795 S. Flaxmer Satan Revealed p. xvi Romanism degenerated into a disguised abstract system of Atheism and Deism, capable of a re-transformation into a more refined papal one.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xiv. 259 My final re-transformation from Indian-rubber back to flesh.
1884 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads I. ii. 336/2 The retransformation of Tam Lin.
1942 K. Burke Let. 6 July in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 252 After Whitman's catalogues, as tempered by Sears Roebuck catalogues, have been transformed into a kind of proto-material from which one may in turn get such re-transformations as Corwin or MacLeish.
1983 C. R. Badcock Madness & Modernity i. 19 Retransformation back again into what it originally had been.
2004 Plant Physiol. 135 16/1 Stacking of transgenes is conventionally accomplished by crossing plants harboring different introduced genes, by successive retransformations or by cotransformation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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