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restate

[ ree-steyt ]

/ riˈsteɪt /

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verb (used with object), re·stat·ed, re·stat·ing.

to state again or in a new way.

Origin of restate

First recorded in 1705–15; re- + state

OTHER WORDS FROM restate

re·state·ment, noun

Words nearby restate

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Example sentences from the Web for restatement

All these assertions call for later modification and restatement.

A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' |Norman Kemp Smith
This is, after all, only a restatement in modern times of the teaching of St. Thomas of Aquin, in the thirteenth century.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine |James J. Walsh
The theory is scarcely a theory properly so-called; but rather, a restatement in other words.

Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I |Herbert Spencer
Restatement of proposition as to the amount of the product of labour.

A Critical Examination of Socialism |William Hurrell Mallock

The second discourse begins with a restatement of the law given on Sinai.

Companion to the Bible |E. P. Barrows

British Dictionary definitions for restatement

restate

/ (riːˈsteɪt) /

verb

(tr) to state or affirm again or in a new way

Derived forms of restate

restatement, noun