reinstantiate

English

Etymology

re- + instantiate

Verb

reinstantiate (third-person singular simple present reinstantiates, present participle reinstantiating, simple past and past participle reinstantiated)

  1. To instantiate again.
    with the claim that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny clearly implying that it reinstantiates some underlying unitary force or principle
    • 2012, Noelle McAfee, Democracy and the Political Unconscious:
      The TRC setting begins to reverse this double trauma: it simultaneously helps to reinstantiate her subjectivity and her membership in the community.

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