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Definition of Readopting
1. readopt [v] - See also: readopt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Readopting
Literary usage of Readopting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedic Digest of Alabama Reports: Being a Complete Encyclopedia edited by Thomas Johnson Michie (1917)
"174), passed an act readopting the code of 1907, which provided that all acts
passed at the ... Held, that the act readopting the code did not repeal either ..."
2. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1902)
"She settled it, she thought, well enough this morning by quite readopting her
plan in respect to Sir Luke Strett. That, she was pleased to reflect, ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"In 1530 Robert Cowley, in sending to Cromwell a scheme for the 'readopting' of
the king's dominion in Ireland, recommended that, should all the native Irish ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Henry was far too reasonable a man to think seriously of readopting the imperialist
plans of his predecessors. He was satisfied to have ensured the dominant ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"Hence it follows that the rolling-stock itself must revert more nearly to its
original pattern, readopting those contrivances which, under altered ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1873)
"Hence it follows that the rolling-stock itself must revert more nearly to its
original pattern, readopting those contrivances which, under altered ..."
7. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"... who in 1896 published his critical revision of the Carboniferous Arachnida,
rejected the later view, and, readopting in substance Dr. Woodward's ..."
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