reconfer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The bank comes forward, and asks us to reconfer on it these extravagant, alarming, and, I fear, ultimately ruinous privileges;"
- "The main object and principle of the settlement was to reconfer proprietary rights on persons possessing the strongest prescriptive title, and to impose a moderate assessment."
- "Pierre Bourdieu has described how the late holders of a title that confers less status than it once did – less than it once promised – are forced to represent its significance in a way that will reconfer value."
- "Second, it opposes the fragmentary character of the understanding and of the treatment of philosophical issues characteristic of the majority of analytic philosophers in that it strives to reconfer upon philosophy its traditional systematic status."
- "Mr. Cina moved that the House refuse to adopt the conference committee report on S.F. No. 196, that the present House conference committee be continued, and that the House conference committee be instructed to reinsert the House language in Sec. 8, Subd. 2, relating to wage earners who earn $1500 or more in less than 20 weeks and reinsert the House language in Sec. 13, Subd. 1, clause (1), relating to disqualifications for voluntary quits, that the Senate be advised of the House action and be requested to reconfer on the differences between the Senate and the House On S. F. No. 196."
- "I would like to say that we have been conferring, and plede today is that I will go back and reconfer."
Etymology
From re- + confer.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re