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Reenactment

Reenactment \Re`["e]n*act"ment\ (-?kt"ment), n. The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.

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reenactment

n. The repetition of an earlier (usually historic) event, as a performance or social event.

Usage examples of "reenactment".

This reenactment business was going to be, at the very least, an experience she could tell her students.

Maybe he was getting paid lots of money for his part in the reenactment and would not appreciate her interference.

Amber said she was born in June of 1970 and I knew during the fall of 1997 she was on her way to a reenactment when she was pulled back in time.

The mounting terror lessened enough for her to slide past, reaching for the reenactment she needed.

The reenactment would be much fainter than the ones with more violence.

She said Ned expects you in the First Virginia for reenactment at Oak Ridge.

Holland family was on hand to view the reenactment, as were thirty thousand other people, a far larger crowd than anyone had anticipated.

For this particular reenactment, the organizers had choreographed hand-to-hand combat among the skirmishers.

It would never do for the Union troops to wallop Southerners on Southern turf unless it was a precise reenactment of an actual battle won by the Yankees.

It was, in a way, a reenactment of the earlier departure which both suspects had disputed.

That wave of fear displayed by Winstead was so perfect a reenactment of the death scene that Cranston had visualized, that it stood as the equivalent of a confession.

The Trojan war itself is incorporated in the synthesis, so that the war in Latium emerges as a reenactment of that earlier war, replacing Hector with Aeneas, Helen with Lavinia, Priam with Evander, and both Achilles and Pyrrhus with Turnus, himself of Greek descent.

Faith enjoyed that kind of play, never missing a costumed reenactment put on at Independence Hall in Philadelphia.

Over the last several weeks, with so many wounded animals seeking him out, Ben had thought more than once that he was living through some kind of weird reenactment of his childhood.

The temper of Parliament manifested itself in the immediate reenactment of the Act of Supremacy.