unrepeal

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ repeal.

Verb

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unrepeal (third-person singular simple present unrepeals, present participle unrepealing, simple past and past participle unrepealed)

  1. To reverse a repeal; to restore a ruling or law that was repealed.
    • 1989, Congressional Record:
      Mr. Chairman, the Stark amendment, as I see it, is a last-ditch effort to resurrect the cat, the catastrophic care bill, and to unrepeal the repeal which we just passed.
    • 2010, Paul Christopherson, Pants on Fire: Cutting through the Biggest Lies of Twenty-first-Century American Plutocracy, →ISBN:
      But the one important reform would be to unrepeal Glass Steagall.
    • 2017 December 12, Faisal Islam, “Government scrambles to avoid defeat on EU Withdrawal bill”, in Sky News:
      Therefore it would unrepeal its repeal in the EU Withdrawal Bill.