reconvert
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reconvert
- /ˌɹiːkənˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
- /ɹiːˈkɒnvɜː(ɹ)t/
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Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Latin convertōder.
Old French convertirbor.
Middle English converten
English convert
English reconvert
From re- + convert.
verb reconverts · reconverting · reconverted
- To convert again, convert back. Now it could not be expected that so much sea being converted into land by this Judgement by two years labour, and but finished and brought to pass in the 6th year of Henry the Sixth, the same land should be in the very next year, viz. in the 7th year of the same Kings Reign reconverted into sea.
- To convert. This epiſtle dyd ſaynt Peter wryte to the Hethen that we reconuerted ⁊ exhorteth thẽ to ſtonde faſt in the fayth[…]
noun reconverts
- A person who has been reconverted. […] it is notorious, that of those professing the creed of naked Protestantism, she [the Church of Rome] has made […] converts and reconverts by thousands—nay, even by millions:
