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redescend

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To descend again (often following an ascent)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive

Examples

  • 1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67, To thee sweet Spirit I return That love wherwith my heart doth burn, And these bless’d notions of my brain I now breath up to thee again, O let them redescend, and still My soul with holy raptures fill.

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History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English descend English redescend From re- + descend.