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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

repotentize en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + potent + -ize.

Meanings

  1. To restore to potency.
    • He said that he will repotentize (sodhon) the amulet. 1994, Vandana Goswami, Potent Words, Potent Objects:
    • The second way Novalis seeks to repotentize his thought is by striving to evoke feelings conducive to liminality. 1998, Joseph Frederick Bailey, Theorizing night vision: Novalis's "Hymnen an die Nacht.", page 209:
    • However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing. 2012, Rebecca S. Watson, Chaos Uncreated:
    • The “yeh” sound repotentizes the original vibration and brings the light from atziluth to b’riah. 2004, Joseph-Mark Cohen, Kabbalistic Healing Workbook - Tree of LifeBodywork & The Sonic Merkavah:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
repotentise alternative lexicographic
repotentized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
repotentized Tense=Past lexicographic
repotentizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
repotentizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic