imagining

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It's brave because it will remind some and show others this re-imagining is a pale successor.

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  1. The act of forming images in the mind.
  2. That which is imagined. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. Shak., Macbeth, i. 3.
  3. Scheming; plot; contrivance. There were iij lordes came on to the kyng, Desireng hym on huntyng for to goo, ffull ontrewly ther with ymagenyng. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), l. 963.

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  • It's brave because it will remind some and show others this re-imagining is a pale successor. —  DVD Verdict
  • What I am imagining is an inversion of this process. —  event mechanics
  • I know - imagining a 2nd term of Zero is a horrific thought, but do you honestly expect the media and the Kool-Aid drinkers to vote against the propaganda they are constantly being fed and have become completely dependent upon? —  Hot Air » Top Picks
  • If you were re-imagining, I suppose, if Battlestar Galactica were to be re-made in —  EclipseMagazine
  • It's not a re-imagining or a reinterpretation of the Viking story, it's just a simple tale of two thieving brothers. —  Comic Book Resources
 

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  1. from Middle English imagininge; verbal noun of imagine, v.
 

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