Rebiting

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of deepening worn lines in an etched plate by submitting it to the action of acid again. countable, uncountable

    "The fact is that a considerable number of Rembrandt's original coppers are still in material existence, though the greater part of them have been so much deteriorated by wear, and so injured by retouchings and rebitings, as to be artistically valueless."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of rebite form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"The fact is that a considerable number of Rembrandt's original coppers are still in material existence, though the greater part of them have been so much deteriorated by wear, and so injured by retouchings and rebitings, as to be artistically valueless."

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