re-appearance

See also: reappearance

English

Noun

re-appearance (countable and uncountable, plural re-appearances)

1. Alternative form of reappearance.
   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 67–68:

     Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love. And now, poor girl! she was considerably worse from this re-appearance of Mr. Elton. She was always having a glimpse of him somewhere or other. Emma saw him only once; but two or three times every day Harriet was sure just to meet with him, or just to miss him, just to hear his voice, or see his shoulder, just to have something occur to preserve him in her fancy, in all the favouring warmth of surprize and conjecture.

   • 1825 January, [Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey], “Art. I. Theodric, a Domestic Tale: With other Poems. By Thomas Campbell. 12mo. pp. 150. London, 1824.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XLI, number LXXXII, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs of D[avid] Willison, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, →OCLC:

     If Mr. [Thomas] Campbell's poetry was of a kind that could be forgotten, his long fits of silence would put him fairly in the way of that misfortune. […] [T]he re-appearance of such an author, after those long periods of occultation, is naturally hailed as a novelty—and he receives the double welcome of a celebrated stranger and a remembered friend.

   • 1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, Dedication: To Charles Baxter:

     It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles.