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redeath en · NOUN

Etymology

From re- + death.

Meanings

  1. A second or further death (chiefly as contrasted with rebirth).
    • Nevertheless, if significant ritual and social action (karman) leads to rebirth and hence redeath, then for some at least it appears that all such actions become suspect. 2000, Paul Williams, Buddhist Thought, page 16:
    • [M]ore than a thousand years later, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would see a rebirth of Arab cultural unity, and a re-death of the idea of Arab political unity. 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 108: