rereform

English

Etymology

re- +‎ reform

Verb

rereform (third-person singular simple present rereforms, present participle rereforming, simple past and past participle rereformed)

1. To reform again.
   • 1874, The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston:

     The constitution, recently reformed, was again, under these new auspices, rereformed, and a law which necessitated the consent of the Cortes to the marriage of the queen repealed.

   • 1938, United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio), Annals of Cleveland, page 14:

     They have been reformed and rereformed.

Noun

rereform (plural rereforms)

1. An act of rereforming.
   • 1860, John Lord, A Modern History, from the time of Luther to the fall of Napoleon.:

     He then turned himself, in good earnest, to the work of his rereform.

   • 1870, The Woman in Purple and Scarlet:

     Then, my dear sir, what is Methodism but a rereform from the Roman Catholic Church?

   • 1913, A History of England, page 1136:

     To this Parliament Flood introduced a sweeping measure of reform. A scene Flood's of wild uproar was the consequence, the Bill was thrown out by a large majority; no better success attended its rereform.

   • 1972, James P. Walsh, Ethnic militancy: an Irish Catholic prototype, page 86:

     The reformers are hardly in before they have to be rereformed .... The whole thing seems to be an endless chain of turn the rascals out until it would take the apparatus and memory of a train dispatcher to know who is in jail and where and who are on the road.

   • 1991, John G. Grumm, Russell D. Murphy, Governing States and Communities: Organizing for Popular Rule:

     We are actually in the midst of a "rereform" movement that has been addressing some of these structural and procedural problems of state legislatures.

Anagrams

• Reformer, reformer