Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The enacting of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
repetition of an earlier (usuallyhistoric ) event, as aperformance or social event.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time
Etymologies
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Examples
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Recycling or reenactment is arguably a bad sign, especially when one is already putting the reader in mind of the subject matter of The Dying Animal.
Zuckerman Undone 2007
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Recycling or reenactment is arguably a bad sign, especially when one is already putting the reader in mind of the subject matter of The Dying Animal.
Zuckerman Undone 2007
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Most of the techniques aim for the extended targets, or the head, just the areas you're not supposed to strike in reenactment - fair enough since we wear modern protective gear for WMA, whereas your friend on a reenactment field is probably wearing an authentic open-faced helmet.
Not going smiting... zornhau 2006
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When you dig into them, I think that you might just find that some of the very best moments of the DCAU occur throughout Superman: TAS, whether is the pitch-perfect origin reenactment in the early episodes to the first meeting of the two icons in “World’s Finest”.
Superman: The Complete Animated Series » DVDs Worth Watching 2009
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PERT: It's the maybe the spinal cord because they were young children once and things happened to them, and people -- Freud had a concept called reenactment whereby we tend to go back and try to reenact things that sort of traumatized us a long time ago.
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He used the opportunity to scold Sydney and Dixon yet again for not staying around for the ceremony and forced them to sit through a word-for-word reenactment of his acceptance speech.
Mind Games Paul Ruditis 2006
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He used the opportunity to scold Sydney and Dixon yet again for not staying around for the ceremony and forced them to sit through a word-for-word reenactment of his acceptance speech.
Mind Games Paul Ruditis 2006
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The film version is almost a word-for-word reenactment of the books 'most important plot points, leaving out some of the more controversial elements that gave the book a dark overtone.
Elites TV 2010
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Team America a word-for-word reenactment of the script before being shot down.
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The trial reenactment, which is being scripted by Assistant District Attorney Sandra L. Hautanen, will be part of an open house beginning at 4 p.m. June 4 at Worcester's new courthouse.
unknown title 2009
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