re-ally
English
editEtymology
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editVerb
editre-ally (third-person singular simple present re-allies, present participle re-allying, simple past and past participle re-allied)
- (transitive) To bring together again.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Before they could new counsels re-allie
- (transitive, intransitive) To ally anew; to re-form an alliance.
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editFurther reading
edit- “re-ally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.