Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To impress anew.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To impress anew.

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  • verb transitive To impress again or anew.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ impress

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Examples

  • So, then, it must have appeared necessary and good in the eyes of the Lord first of all to confirm the change of name and so to reimpress the obligation involved in the new name.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Jacob's sons listed together, first, to reimpress their names on the mind and to show what potentialities for development into a numerous people lay in Jacob's descendants at this point already.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • This fullness of expression is to be accounted for, as Luther above all others rightly contends by the fact that Noah and those with him must have "lived in great trembling, fear and sorrow, and so it was absolutely necessary to repeat and reimpress continually-one set form of speech."

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • So, then, it must have appeared necessary and good in the eyes of the Lord first of all to confirm the change of name and so to reimpress the obligation involved in the new name.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Jacob's sons listed together, first, to reimpress their names on the mind and to show what potentialities for development into a numerous people lay in Jacob's descendants at this point already.

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Could they see each other a dozen times, swearing not to mention the possibility of loving, -- so that she might have a chance to reimpress him with her blondined hair -- it _is_ touched up, you know -- and small talk?

    The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

  • We implore your Dignity to come and reimpress some form of divineness on our distracted Church.

    Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

  • All that Mr. Wilson and his proposed League of Nations can do will be to revamp, and maybe for a while to reimpress the minds of the rank and file, until the bellowing followers of Bellona are ready to spring.

    Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • All that Mr. Wilson and his proposed League of Nations can do will be to revamp, and maybe for a while to reimpress the minds of the rank and file, until the bellowing followers of Bellona are ready to spring.

    Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • a while to reimpress the minds of the rank and file, until the bellowing followers of Bellona are ready to spring.

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

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