Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In French law, to record or register a second time, as a mortgage, required by the law of Louisiana to be periodically reinscribed in order to preserve its priority.
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- verb To
inscribe again.
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Examples
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She concludes with a frustratingly brief epilogue that considers ways forward, specifically ways to "reinscribe" the white slavery myth and find more productive ways of looking at women's (and men's) involvement in the sex industry than through the simplistic prism of consent.
Philobiblon 2010
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Again, one can only presume that, in Steinhauer's view, "wonderful prose, great acting or cinematography" becomes "art" only when it does not reinscribe "what's already fully accepted by the mainstream of our society."
Genre Fiction 2010
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The effect of this mix of both public and private outing practices, as I experience it, is to reinscribe techniques of queer performance as rhetorical tropes available for employ by any artist, regardless of sexuality.
Andrew Gorin: Childhood, Violence, and Alien Mating Practices: James Franco's "The Dangerous Book Four Boys" Andrew Gorin 2010
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Anyway, what I do want to do is discuss how the video below uses the idea of orgasmic birth to reinscribe the myth of the vaginal orgasm.
ORGASMIC BIRTH AND THE MYTH OF THE VAGINAL ORGASM » Sociological Images 2009
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The second ad could have been made non-offensive by using animal faces in the bushes, but obviously a choice was made by the advertiser to instead reinscribe colonial/racist visual discourse.
NIKON S60 AUTO-FOCUSES ON VOYEURS, “SAVAGES,” GHOSTS » Sociological Images 2008
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The second ad could have been made non-offensive by using animal faces in the bushes, but obviously a choice was made by the advertiser to instead reinscribe colonial/racist visual discourse.
NIKON S60 AUTO-FOCUSES ON VOYEURS, “SAVAGES,” GHOSTS » Sociological Images 2008
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While individuals might not be racist, bigoted, etc., I do think we can look at the way the theories can reinscribe oppression.
On Transgender, Transsexuals, and Entrenching the Binary Gender System 2006
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While individuals might not be racist, bigoted, etc., I do think we can look at the way the theories can reinscribe oppression.
On Transgender, Transsexuals, and Entrenching the Binary Gender System 2006
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Later generations would revere the decision for exile and inscribe and reinscribe it in stone.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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Later generations would revere the decision for exile and inscribe and reinscribe it in stone.
The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004
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