perusal
noun
a reading.
reperusal
-
a word derived from
perusal.
Example Sentences
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In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens.
From Time Magazine Archive
I confess that it was only upon careful reperusal of the paper that I perceived the extent to which its assertions of power reach.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
This solecism once vividly and practically apparent; then comes the earnest reperusal of the Gospels: the intense self-absorption into that greatest real miracle of all religions, the Sermon on the Mount.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
From a careful reperusal of the two volumes of poems, I doubt whether the objectionable passages would amount in the whole to one hundred lines; not the eighth part of the number of pages.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
At each reperusal of her letter he felt more resolved to disappoint the hope that inspired it.
From Eve's Ransom by George Gissing
