reëmbrace

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Verb

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reëmbrace (third-person singular simple present reëmbraces, present participle reëmbracing, simple past and past participle reëmbraced)

  1. Alternative form of reembrace.
    • 1848, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England, volume IV, page 378:
      He then, in the year 1731, went over to Holland, and reëmbraced the Protestant religion, which he had renounced to push his fortunes in Spain.
    • 1912, Louis Joseph Vance, The Destroying Angel (2010 republication), chapter VI: “Curtain”, page 44
      Irresponsibly, his reverie reëmbraced the memory he had of the woman who alone held the key to his matrimonial entanglement.