reinscribe
verb
re·in·scribe ˌrē-ən-ˈskrīb 
reinscribed; reinscribing; reinscribes
transitive verb
: to reestablish or rename in a new and especially stronger form or context
how do contemporary writers reimagine or reinscribe the culturally laden figure of the aging woman?
Ruth O. Saxton
Ruth O. Saxton
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Redemptionists sought to reinscribe slavery’s power relations between Blacks and whites via racial terror, through Black Codes that disenfranchised Black voters, and by ending federal protection for Black citizenship. Time, 15 Sep. 2022 But as an overarching theory, the idea that humans moved from freedom to stuckness seems to reinscribe some of the schematic evolutionary folktales that the book exists to critique. Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022 The exquisite patterning, the archaic involutions of syntax, the lyricism: Does Sebald’s style reinscribe a sense of human possibility while keeping vigil with the dead? Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021 But Howland seems reluctant to reinscribe the cruelties of these categories: sick and well, normal and abnormal. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2021 Ever since the Civil War, there’s been a real attempt by white supremacists all over the country to reinsert and reinscribe white supremacy as the ideology and the visual culture of America. New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020 Books such as Twitty’s own, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, reinscribe the country’s food legacies, honoring the innovations that black people have contributed for centuries. Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 16 June 2020 Its female empowerment aside, Black Panther does reinscribe patriarchy and respectability in disappointing ways. Steven Thrasher, Esquire, 20 Feb. 2018 But this film seems to reinscribe the hyperreal nature of the real flesh using not much more than knives, which is more terrifying. Lewis Wallace, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2007 See More
Time, 15 Sep. 2022 But as an overarching theory, the idea that humans moved from freedom to stuckness seems to reinscribe some of the schematic evolutionary folktales that the book exists to critique. Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022 The exquisite patterning, the archaic involutions of syntax, the lyricism: Does Sebald’s style reinscribe a sense of human possibility while keeping vigil with the dead? Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021 But Howland seems reluctant to reinscribe the cruelties of these categories: sick and well, normal and abnormal. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2021 Ever since the Civil War, there’s been a real attempt by white supremacists all over the country to reinsert and reinscribe white supremacy as the ideology and the visual culture of America. New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020 Books such as Twitty’s own, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, reinscribe the country’s food legacies, honoring the innovations that black people have contributed for centuries. Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 16 June 2020 Its female empowerment aside, Black Panther does reinscribe patriarchy and respectability in disappointing ways. Steven Thrasher, Esquire, 20 Feb. 2018 But this film seems to reinscribe the hyperreal nature of the real flesh using not much more than knives, which is more terrifying. Lewis Wallace, WIRED, 29 Dec. 2007 See More Word History
First Known Use
1878, in the meaning defined above
Legal Definition
reinscribe
transitive verb
re·in·scribe ˌrē-in-ˈskrīb
in the civil law of Louisiana : to inscribe (as a mortgage) again especially after expiration of the period of inscription (as ten years)
Note: A recorded mortgage or document creating a privilege is reinscribed by filing a notice of reinscription with the recorder.