Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A second or a repeated perusal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A second or repeated perusal.
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- noun A second or repeated
perusal .
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Examples
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I think they will interest you as they have done with me upon reperusal, ever encreasingly.
Letter 18 2009
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Although they applied themselves to it with the best intentions in the world, it chanced that they always fell to talking about something else, and when Nicholas tried it by himself, he found it impossible to write one – half of what he wished to say, or to pen anything, indeed, which on reperusal did not appear cold and unsatisfactory compared with what he had in his mind.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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Could any man but thee put together upon paper the following questions with so much unconcern as thou seemest to have written them? — give them a reperusal, O heart of adamant!
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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For, on reperusal of a copy of my letter, which fell into my hands by accident, in the hand-writing of my cousin Charlotte, who, unknown to me, had transcribed it, I find it to be such a letter as an enemy would rejoice to see.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Mr Puddicombe, after attentive reperusal of the article.
Dr. Wortle's school 2004
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Upon the reperusal of this book I found the bishop only asserting his opinion that tar-water might be useful in the dropsy, since he had known it to have a surprising success in the cure of a most stubborn anasarca, which is indeed no other than, as the word implies, the dropsy of the flesh; and this was, at that time, a large part of my complaint.
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On reperusal, it was full of evil presage — 'Al scenery' — but what of equinoctial storms and October fogs?
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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Silence was, in measure, restored by my appearance, and I took the opportunity to demand from the minister a reperusal of the letter that had just been read.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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_Rosmersholm_, I went home and sought solace from a reperusal of an old play, by the buoyant and healthy Thomas Heywood, which is sweetly named
The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
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The reader is well aware that this work has attained a great popularity -- we may add that it has deserved it, being a work of marked originality; one of characters and feelings which will even bear at sundry times reperusal: as good a character as can be given to a novel, and a far better one than we are disposed to award to the majority of those which we meet.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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