Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Inoculation a second time or subsequently.
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- noun
inoculation again or anew
Etymologies
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re- + inoculation
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Examples
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Others I can inoculate with my optimism, but the effect passes quickly, and each succeeding reinoculation has been less and less effective, with the monotonous questioning, ever more sardonic in tone: "How can you be deluded by the official bulletins?" or: "What do you know about war, to make you so cocksure?"
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 Various
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The surprising finding of the analysis is of the "reinoculation" of the plumes, where methane-eating microbe population sizes exploded over the site of the well disaster, and then drifted with currents.
USATODAY.com News 2012
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