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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

reknow en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + know.

Meanings

  1. To know again; to relearn or understand anew.
    • The teacher’s special function is to lead the pupil to reknow these elements, and by thought to attain the desired knowledge. 1885 November, E. E. White, “The Philosophy of Teaching”, in The Illinois School Journal, volume 5, number 7, page 160:
    • It is a story of human beings constantly reknowing themselves as the reciprocal of the self-reknowing of others. 1993, Philip Allott, “Self-Determination - Absolute Right or Social Poetry?”, in Christian Tomuschat, editor, Modern Law of Self-Determination, →ISBN, page 179:
    • In recognizing one another in our aesthetic constructs, in coming to reknow one another, we come to reknow ourselves as well. 1988, Nancy R. Harrison, Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women’s Text, →ISBN, page 45:
    • And only then, when he has recovered his true self, does he uncover, or reknow, the true distinctions, identifying erōs as a divine gift, and distinguishing between “good” and “bad” madness—a distinction that is essential if human beings are to have a true understanding of themselves and what they experience in love. 1998, Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 17:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
reknew Tense=Past lexicographic
reknows Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reknown Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reknowing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic