Reappearance
[,riːə'pɪərəns] or [,riə'pɪrəns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of someone appearing again; 'his reappearance as Hamlet has been long awaited'.
(noun.) the event of something appearing again; 'the reappearance of Halley's comet'.
Checker: Melva--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
Editor: Segre
Examples
- I have given you a serious shock by my unnecessarily dramatic reappearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He recognized the friends the instant they reappeared, but their reappearance had no effect on his composure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Bob's reappearance with a steaming jug broke off the conversation. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- With the relation of this extraordinary circumstance, my reappearance in these pages comes to an end. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Richardson, also, speaks of the reappearance on the shores of New Zealand, Tasmania, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Expectations of some interest were connected with my approaching reappearance in that part of the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was inevitable that he should wish to get rid of John Raffles, though his reappearance could not be regarded as lying outside the divine plan. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Leinster appeared much annoyed at the reappearance of Worcester and talked of going to Spain. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Yeobright's manner had been so quiet, he had uttered so few syllables since his reappearance, that Venn imagined him resigned. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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