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third-person singular simple present reknows, present participle reknowing, simple past reknew, past participle reknown
(chiefly philosophy) To know again; to relearn or understand anew. quotations examples
The teacher’s special function is to lead the pupil to reknow these elements, and by thought to attain the desired knowledge.
1885 November, E. E. White, “The Philosophy of Teaching”, in The Illinois School Journal, volume 5, number 7, page 160
In recognizing one another in our aesthetic constructs, in coming to reknow one another, we come to reknow ourselves as well.
1988, Nancy R. Harrison, Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women’s Text, page 45
It is a story of human beings constantly reknowing themselves as the reciprocal of the self-reknowing of others.
1993, Philip Allott, “Self-Determination - Absolute Right or Social Poetry?”, in Christian Tomuschat, editor, Modern Law of Self-Determination, page 179
And only then, when he has recovered his true self, does he uncover, or reknow, the true distinctions, identifying erōs as a divine gift, and distinguishing between “good” and “bad” madness—a distinction that is essential if human beings are to have a true understanding of themselves and what they experience in love.
1998, Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy, page 17