reidentify
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[edit]reidentify (third-person singular simple present reidentifies, present participle reidentifying, simple past and past participle reidentified)
- (transitive) To identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.
- Antonyms: deidentify, anonymize
- Hypernym: identify
- 2019 October 4, Stephen Holland, Ethics and Governance of Public Health Information, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 68:
- To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data?
- (intransitive) To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
- 2017 July 12, Thomas Robbins, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Routledge, →ISBN:
- The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic) […]
- 2021 June 17, Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
- By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the […]
- 2022 April 19, Dwight Newman, Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 454:
- ... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and […]