redeath

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From re- +‎ death.

Noun[edit]

redeath

  1. A second or further death (chiefly as contrasted with rebirth).
    • 2000, Paul Williams, Buddhist Thought, page 16:
      Nevertheless, if significant ritual and social action (karman) leads to rebirth and hence redeath, then for some at least it appears that all such actions become suspect.
    • 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 108:
      [M]ore than a thousand years later, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries would see a rebirth of Arab cultural unity, and a re-death of the idea of Arab political unity.