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Answer for the clue "An act of renewed introduction ", 14 letters:
reintroduction

Word definitions for reintroduction in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an act of renewed introduction

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from re- + introduction .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reintroduce \Re*in`tro*duce"\ (r?*?n`tr?*d?s"), v. t. To introduce again. -- Re*in`tro*duc"tion (-d?k"sh?n), n.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the act of introducing something again, especially the release of animals from captivity into the wild

Usage examples of reintroduction.

She climbed slowly, taking the time to linger over every familar object her eye drew towards her like old past friends needing reintroduction.

But in the process of the splicing and reformulating genetic codes, the wildness had been bred out of the animals, making them more like large domestic cats, and certainly unfit for reintroduction into the wild.

The largest owls in Europe, eagle owls had been extinct in Germany until recently, when the Frankfurt Zoological Society had helped sponsor a reintroduction program.

One of the psychotherapists, not Sue Raudsley this time, but probably encouraged by her, had argued for the reintroduction of electroconvulsive therapy in place of the monoamine oxidase inhibitor drugs for endogenous depression.