reconvert
verb
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Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈkɒnvɜː(ɹ)t/ / /ˌɹiːkənˈvɜː(ɹ)t/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Latin convertōder. Old French convertirbor. Middle English converten English convert English reconvert From re- + convert.
- A person who has been reconverted.
“[…] it is notorious, that of those professing the creed of naked Protestantism, she [the Church of Rome] has made […] converts and reconverts by thousands—nay, even by millions:”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- Latin convertōder. Old French convertirbor. Middle English converten English convert English reconvert From re- + convert.
- To convert again, convert back.
“Now it could not be expected that so much sea being converted into land by this Judgement by two years labour, and but finished and brought to pass in the 6th year of Henry the Sixth, the same land should be in the very next year, viz. in the 7th year of the same Kings Reign reconverted into sea.”
“About this time the East-Saxons, who as above hath bin said, had expell’d thir Bishop Mellitus, and renounc’d the Faith, were by the means of Oswi thus reconverted.”
- To convert.
“This epiſtle dyd ſaynt Peter wryte to the Hethen that we reconuerted ⁊ exhorteth thẽ to ſtonde faſt in the fayth[…]”
“Gentlemen both, and Cozens mine, I do believe ’t much pity, to strive to reconvert you from the faith you have been bred in:”