reapprehension en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌɹiːˌæpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/
Etymology
re- + apprehension
Meanings
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(uncountable) The act of apprehending again; a second or renewed apprehension.
if reapprehension is almost certain, then any small amount of bail is enough to induce court appearance, and this is true even when conviction is almost certain.
1998, Alfred Choi, Anthony Chin, editors, Law, Social Sciences, and Public Policy: Towards a Unified Framework, Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore, page 114:The Duke of Lancaster, though excepted in the same, yet in the behalfe of his friends, was not a little offended with the Bishops doings for justifying these leude persons, and making the Church a sanctuary for Rebells and Traytors, and his excommunications, a scourge to punish the Kings Officers for doing their duties in reapprehending these fugitives;
1641, William Prynne, ANTIPATHIE OF THE ENGLISH LORDLY PRELACIE, BOTH TO REGALL MONARCHY, AND CIVILL UNITY, pages 236-237:An arrest on a Sunday is absolutely void (w). If, however, a defendant arrested on a Saturday escapes he may be retaken on a Sunday, for that is not in execution of the process, but a continuance of the former imprisonment (x); and it is said that a person may be arrested on a Sunday on the Lord Chancellor’s warrant, or an order of commitment for contempt, for he is considered as in custody from the time of making the order, and the warrant is directed to the gaoler as in the nature of an escape warrant (y), (which is a warrant authorized under the 1 Ann. stat. 2, c. 6, s. 1, and 5 Ann. c. 9, s. 3, by which the judge of any Court out of which process has issued, by virtue of which a party has been committed to prison and escapes from such prison, may issue a warrant for his reapprehension), under which it has been held that a defendant may be retaken on the Lord's-day (z).
1837, EDMUND ROBERT DANIELL, F. R. S., A TREATISE ON THE PRACTICE OF THE HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, WITH SOME PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ON The Pleadings in that Court., volume 1, LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, page 585:
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(uncountable) A reconsideration or new understanding of something previously known or misunderstood.
It will wear the cloak of humility; it will speak so plausibly, that it oftener meets with approbation than with that reapprehension which is its due.
1871, The Mothers' Treasury: containing Various Pieces of Permanent Interest., volume VIII, THE BOOK SOCIETY, page 182:Two related aspects of postmodern mythopoetic writing are seen in these three poets: the concentration on the immanent moment unites them, but while Levertov rests in the reapprehension of archetypal, cyclic patterns, both Rukeyser and Rich have passed to historical critique of mythopoesis, replacing archetype by prototype.
1979, Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar, editors, Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, Indiana University Press, page 299: