Refigure
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To figure again or anew. transitive
"The hookworm campaign […] was far more effective in creating and legitimating powerful new social boundaries. Through the rhetoric of the hookworm campaign, poor white trash were partially refigured as pure white Americans, a group that deserved higher status and greater prestige than that accorded to southern blacks."
- 2 To duplicate. transitive
"Ten times thyself were happier than thou art, If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee ..."
- 3 To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror. transitive
Example
More examples"The hookworm campaign […] was far more effective in creating and legitimating powerful new social boundaries. Through the rhetoric of the hookworm campaign, poor white trash were partially refigured as pure white Americans, a group that deserved higher status and greater prestige than that accorded to southern blacks."
Etymology
From re- + figure.
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