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reviolate en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + violate.

Meanings

1. To violate again.
   • Z felt most comfortable imposing the death penalty where the defendant is 'incorrigible and would reviolate if released,' and less comfortable where the defendant is found to have been 'temporarily insane.' 2007, Lorraine V. Coyne, Capital Punishment Update, →ISBN, page 92:
   • In this way, the state can learn which measures are most effective in ensuring that offenders do not reviolate. 2008, Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan, →ISBN:
   • Those polluted external intruders who cross the boundaries of her ritual sanctuary unwittingly "reviolate" her bodily boundaries with the pollutants which they exude. 1994, Marcia Claire Inhorn, Quest for conception:

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