retransfiguration
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I hear of hundreds of miles of sidings, acres of covered sheddings, scores of miles of drain pipes, all ready and waiting to be put down. But organises and officially sanctioned attempt to ruin the post-war possibility of the retransfiguration and resurrection of an industry that has ever received more kicks than halfpence, although by its very existence it practicially saved the country when the latter was in need of help such as the industry alone was able to give."
- "Some such retransfiguration of things that had sunk into triteness blesses the fortunate holidaymaker."
- "Unconscious desire, as Lacan frequently reminded us, insists on reproducing itself in scenarios of our adult life that are retransfigurations of the early fantasmatic scenarios."
Etymology
From re- + transfiguration.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re