Reinscribe

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To inscribe again.
  2. 2
    To reproduce an idea in a new context or manifestation, typically in a way that reinforces it or extends its influence.

    "This ambivalent anality both parodied national and gendered fantasies of “hardness” at the same time that it drew on dynamics of racial and queer mimesis to reinscribe hegemonic (white/ straight) masculinity."

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"This ambivalent anality both parodied national and gendered fantasies of “hardness” at the same time that it drew on dynamics of racial and queer mimesis to reinscribe hegemonic (white/ straight) masculinity."

Etymology

From re- + inscribe.

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