reëngage
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]reëngage (third-person singular simple present reëngages, present participle reëngaging, simple past and past participle reëngaged)
- Dated form of re-engage.
- 1852, American Baptist Missionary Union, “Maulmain Karen Mission”, in Thirty-Eighth Annual Report: with the Proceedings of the Annual Meetings, […], Boston, Mass.: Missionary Rooms, […], →OCLC, page 56:
- Several of the lately appointed missionaries are destined, with leave of Providence, to join the Karen missions; and the Committee are not without hope of reëngaging for a limited period, if the health of his family permit, the services of Mr. Binney.
- 1909 September, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Beginning of Vacation”, in Anne of Avonlea, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC, page 162:
- The school year was ended, she had been reëngaged for the next, with many expressions of satisfaction […]
- 2019 June 5, Jeannie Suk Gersen, “How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars”, in The New Yorker[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-05:
- The abortion fight we are gearing up for departs from the realm of uneasy compromise and reëngages the clash of absolutes.