Dictionary

reidentify en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (transitive) To identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.
   • To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data? 2019 October 4, Stephen Holland, Ethics and Governance of Public Health Information, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 68:
2. (intransitive) To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
   • By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the[…] 2021 June 17, Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
   • The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…] 2017 July 12, Thomas Robbins, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Routledge, →ISBN:
   • ... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and […] 2022 April 19, Dwight Newman, Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 454:

Forms

Antonyms

deidentify · anonymize

Hypernyms

identify

Relateds

reidentification · unidentified · misidentify