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reidentify

verb

Etymology

From re- + identify.

  1. derived from faciō
  2. derived from identicus
  3. borrowed from identifier
  4. prefixed as reidentify — “re + identify”

Definitions

  1. To identify (something or someone) again

    To identify (something or someone) again; to make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; especially, for example, to undo deidentification of.

    • To take each in turn, how likely is it that public health adversaries will reidentify data?

  2. To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).

    • The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic)[…]
    • By constructing an ethnic identity for people who are stigmatized and suffering as consequence of their faith in Christ, Peter helps his addressees disidentify with their past and reidentify as the[…]
    • ... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and […]

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