rewallow

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ wallow.

Verb

rewallow (third-person singular simple present rewallows, present participle rewallowing, simple past and past participle rewallowed)

1. To wallow again.
   • 1752, Christopher Brown, Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ: or The Sacred History and Doctrine of the New Testament:

     By the Dog returning to eat what he vomited, and the Sow wash'd rewallowing in the Mire.

   • 1896 March, J.H., “Correspondence: Enameling and Enamelers”, in The Clay Worker, volume 25, number 3, page 359:

     That fine flash of sarcasm, rewallowing in a glaze tub, etc., etc., would lead one to suppose that he never did any preliminary work, but that he was predestinated to all those subsequent events which he has set out in his ticket of admission.

   • 1998, Harold E. Will, Will's Commentary on the New Testament, Volume 11: I Peter -Jude, page 154:

     But he is here . . .taking up again what he had before rejected, and defiling himself in that from which he had been cleansed. . .entangled with their old sins, swallowed down their formerly rejected lusts, and rewallowed in the mire of corruption.

Anagrams

• wallower