Reconstruction
[riːkən'strʌkʃn] or [,rikən'strʌkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the activity of constructing something again.
(noun.) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing abstract features which are then used to construct the memory during recall.
(noun.) an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence.
(noun.) the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877.
Editor: Moore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
(n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rebuilding, re-establishment, restoration, renovation, redintegration, reconstitution, instauration, REHABILITATION.
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Examples
- In 1815 reconstruction was begun, and completed in 1827. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The British Ministry of Reconstruction and its foreign equivalents were exposed as a soothing sham. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is a process of reconstruction, reorganization. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It would certainly occasion reconstruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Education as Reconstruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Let us continue our reconstruction. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I felt that reconstruction had been set back, no telling how far. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The reconstruction of philosophy, of education, and of social ideals and methods thus go hand in hand. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It remains only to point out (what will receive more ample attention later) that the reconstruction of experience may be social as well as personal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The emancipation of the slaves might teach us the lesson that an explosion followed by reconstruction is satisfactory to nobody. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They convey an impulse, not a program, nor a plan of reconstruction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am not engaged in drawing up the plans for a reconstruction or in telling just what should be done. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There was to be no reconstruction, but only a restoration of the old order--in the harsher form necessitated by the poverty of the new time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We can no longer prepare the individual for a community when our ideas of a community are shattered and undergoing reconstruction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But we may well consider these reconstructions as contributory essays and experiments in the general constructive effort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This sense of mastery in a winning battle against the conditions of our life is, I believe, the social myth that will inspire our reconstructions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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