Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To plunge again; immerse anew.
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- verb To
plunge again
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Examples
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Circumstances also had conduced to replunge the Pretender into the habits to which the renewed hope of political support, the novelty of married life, and perhaps whatever of good may still have been conjured up in his nature by the presence of a beautiful young wife, had momentarily broken through.
The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895
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To bring about this replunge into Nirvana is the goal of the world process.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888
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Why, he asks, do you replunge us into the night of hypotheses, justifying the Cartesians and their three elements and their vortices?
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot John Morley 1880
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Even to-day the sudden discovery of truths unsupported by human experience, the sudden revelation of facts totally opposed to existing convictions, might evoke some frantic revival of superstitious terrors, -- some religious panic-fury that would strangle science, and replunge the world in mental darkness for a thousand years.
The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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In days when men acted by ecclesiastical rules these prejudices produced waste of capital, and helped mightily to replunge
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other William Graham Sumner 1875
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Sometimes they were on the left of the boat, sometimes on the right, and, one following the other in a kind of game, they would leap into the air, describe a curve, and replunge into the sea one after the other.
The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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He stirs the stagnant soul, that man may replunge into his native self, and rise redeemed.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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Our travellers lingered with these humble and hospitable men and women, until themselves and horses were fully recruited -- and when they determined to leave, and replunge into the cold winter, and among the colder hearts between them and Canada, a rustic ball was got up to complete the circle of civilities, and celebrate their departure.
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859
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The tide of feeling took two directions -- one to find the track of the girl, and hunt her down and replunge her into slavery; and the other to hunt out the villains who dared to put their abolition in practice in Syracuse, and subject them to the terrible penalties of slave laws.
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859
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The great perils which threatened Europe were from unsubdued barbarians, who sought to replunge it into the miseries which the great irruptions had inflicted three hundred years before.
Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852
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