Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The repetition of a demand; also, a demand for the return of anything.
- To demand the return of; also, to demand a second time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To demand back; to demand again.
- noun A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to
demand again.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Chatelart, who was prepossessed with an opinion that it belonged to the Duke of Nemours, and that the Duke was in love with the Queen-Dauphin, did not doubt but it was he who had sent to redemand it, and so answered with a malicious sort of joy, that he had put the letter into the Queen-Dauphin's hands.
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"I cannot comprehend," replied the Princess, "how it should be of any consequence to him, if this letter should be seen, nor what reason there is to redemand it in his name."
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When the unfortunate Queen would have sacrificed her jewels to liquidate the claims which pressed the most heavily upon her, she found the measure impossible, lest the King should redemand them as the property of the Crown; and she consequently soon saw herself reduced to the undignified expedient of subsisting upon the generosity of the powers from whom she had sought protection.
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It was as though he saw the wraith of some fair, dead woman he had loved of old, risen anew to redemand from him his former allegiance.
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They then proceeded to Tenedos, from whence Odysseus and Menelaus were dispatched as envoys to Troy, to redemand Helen and the stolen property.
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When the unfortunate Queen would have sacrificed her jewels to liquidate the claims which pressed the most heavily upon her, she found the measure impossible, lest the King should redemand them as the property of the Crown; and she consequently soon saw herself reduced to the undignified expedient of subsisting upon the generosity of the powers from whom she had sought protection.
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Away I came, and in my vexation totally forgot to redemand my manuscript.
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The Duke of Weymar pretended that John de Vert was his Prisoner, and that he only sent him into France to be kept there till he should redemand him.
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France to be kept there till he should redemand him.
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Duke of Nemours, and that the Duke was in love with the Queen-Dauphin, did not doubt but it was he who had sent to redemand it, and so answered with a malicious sort of joy, that he had put the letter into the Queen-Dauphin's hands.
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