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Definition of Recommencing
1. recommence [v] - See also: recommence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recommencing
Literary usage of Recommencing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases (1855)
"some other reason, stopped short, for the purpose, as he said, of recommencing
a new dictation on the same subject. NOTE II. ..."
2. The Siege of Savannah: By the Combined American and French Forces, Under the by Franklin Benjamin Hough (1866)
"... therefore, the evening Gun to be fired this Evening at an Hour before Sundown,
mall be the Signal for recommencing ..."
3. A Brief for the Trial of Criminal Cases by Austin Abbott, William Constantine Beecher (1902)
"691, 4 NE 259 (as to foundation and limits of power to punish for contempt).
See also post, Division XXXII. 126. Substituting a new juror and recommencing ..."
4. A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans by John Lingard (1840)
"... giving to either parly, al the expiration of four years, the option of
recommencing hostilities after six month's previous notice; stipulating, however, ..."
5. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"... Whiteley reopened his present monster establishment, he begged of this lady
to come again and offer up a prayer previous to his recommencing business. ..."
6. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1880)
"... become an artless, long drawn out and yet desultory prose, like a nurse's
fairy tale, explaining every thing, recommencing and breaking off its phrases, ..."
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