re-enˈslave, v.
Also 7 rein-, re-in-.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To enslave again. Hence re-enˈslaving vbl. n.
| 1657 M. Hawke Killing is M. 12 The Army presaging what dangerous..consequences might ensue to the reinslaving of the people. 1691 Beverley Mem. Kingd. Christ 3 It would be wholly impossible to Re-inslave these Nations. 1807 Hazlitt Pol. Ess. (1819) 406 If this increase would be an evil..the re-enslaving the country would be a good. 1856 Olmsted Slave States 95 A man who had been free, but..was reënslaved. |
So re-enˈslavement.
| 1859 Ld. Lyons Let. 6 Dec. in Ld. Newton Lord Lyons (1913) I. ii. 19 The reenslavement of all the emancipated negroes. 1883 Contemp. Rev. Nov. 686 The whites would undoubtedly disfranchise the blacks if they could..but none assuredly would ever again consent to their re⁓enslavement. |