reacquirement

Even in her way of looking clean and fresh she was different, as if those prime feminine essentials were in her not matters of frequent reacquirement but inherent and inalienable, like her brilliance of eyes and smoothness of skin.

The Cost 1904

It is a case of systematic atavism, or of the reacquirement of some ancient and long-lost quality.

Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

Even in her way of looking clean and fresh she was different, as if those prime feminine essentials were in her not matters of frequent reacquirement but inherent and inalienable, like her brilliance of eyes and smoothness of skin.

The Cost David Graham Phillips 1889

While it is certain that any considerable reacquirement of the power to secrete insulin would be revealed by this method, it is possible that a very scanty secretion might be masked on account of the relatively large amounts administered daily from without, for it has been shown, by Frank N. Allan, that the glucose equivalent of each unit of insulin is very much higher when the total number of units administered is small than when it is large.

John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965