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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
refound .
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Examples
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It does one thing, indeed, which in a way refounds or even founds the whole conception -- it establishes the heroine.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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But we have to be the party that refounds the welfare state for working people
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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The central demand of the broad movement that brought Correa to power is for a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution that breaks up the current dysfunctional state, ends the reign of the "partidocracia," refounds the country as a plurinational, participatory democracy, reclaims Ecuadorian sovereignty and uses the state to advance social and economic policies that benefit the people, not the oligarchy.
Kafila 2009
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The clattering of bells, the buftlingof procefTions, and the ejaculations of friars, engage the attention by day, v/hilfl every part refounds by night with the chaunting of hymns.
Travels in Portugal; through the provinces of Entre Douro e Minho, Beira, Estremadura, and Alem-tejo, in the years 1789 and 1790, consisting of observations on the manners, customs, trade, public buildings, arts, antiquities, &c. of that kingdom Murphy, James Cavanah, 1760-1814 1795
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And fury irrefiJftible, they dafh Their hardy frontlets; the v/ide vale refounds j The. flock amaz'd ftands fafe afar; and oft Each to the other's might a vidim falls:
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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While lo-ue 0/iruthihxoMgh. all their camp refounds, 775
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Then follow with me, where the welkin refounds With the notes of the horn, and the cry of the hounds,
The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson 1790
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And, prefs'd betwixt the rocks, the bellowing noife refounds.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Nurfe of the ruftic bard, who now refounds The fortunes of the fleece; whofe ancefl; ors Were fugitives from Superfliition's rage.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Waking the breeze, refounds the blended voice Of happy labour, love, and focial glee.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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