re-enact

verb

But it is a motion picture which purports to re-enact true events about recent Iranian history.

Did the Pilgrims re-enact an English harvest festival, alcoholic and semi-pagan?

May the happy couple live to re-enact the same sixty years after marriage!

We have seen in the last chapter that whatever interests primitive man, whatever makes him feel strongly, he tends to re-enact.

Art and ritual are at the outset alike in this, that they do not seek to copy a fact, but to reproduce, to re-enact an emotion.

It became necessary to re-enact this ecclesiastical prohibition several times.

Are we to have a God who will re-enact the Mosaic code and punish hundreds of offences with death?

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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