re-eˈspouse, v.
[re- 5 a.]
To espouse again.
| a 1618 Sylvester Elegie to Marg. Wyts 80 Metkerk had her Mother re-espous'd. 1652 Benlowes Theoph. xiii. lxxvi, The Corps but falls to be refin'd And re-espous'd unto the Glorifi'd high Minde. |
Hence re-eˈspousal.
| 1817 G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 357 note, The repudiation, long desolation, and ultimate reëspousal, of the Levitical Church, are described at large in Isaiah liv. 1–14. 1827 ― Sacr. Cal. Prophecy (1844) III. 299 The set time of the Reëspousal of Judah. |