repotentize

English

Alternative forms

• repotentise

Etymology

re- +‎ potent +‎ -ize

Verb

repotentize (third-person singular simple present repotentizes, present participle repotentizing, simple past and past participle repotentized)

1. To restore to potency.
   • 1994, Vandana Goswami, Potent Words, Potent Objects:

     He said that he will repotentize (sodhon) the amulet.

   • 1998, Joseph Frederick Bailey, Theorizing night vision: Novalis's "Hymnen an die Nacht.", page 209:

     The second way Novalis seeks to repotentize his thought is by striving to evoke feelings conducive to liminality.

   • 2004, Joseph-Mark Cohen, Kabbalistic Healing Workbook - Tree of LifeBodywork & The Sonic Merkavah:

     The “yeh” sound repotentizes the original vibration and brings the light from atziluth to b’riah.

   • 2012, Rebecca S. Watson, Chaos Uncreated:

     However, the notion that an originally “mythological” figure has been “depotentized”, then variously “repotentized” or further “demythologized” by later, dependent authors, though the “mythological” understanding finally prevailed in later Jewish literature, does not sound entirely convincing.