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Second time to the top
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reascent
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Word definitions for reascent in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reascent \Re`as*cent"\ (-s[e^]nt"), n. A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. --Cowper.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A second or subsequent ascent; the act or process of reascending.
Usage examples of reascent.
After having been on his feet twenty-four hours, in the exhausting work of mountain-climbing, Sir George began the reascent at the head of the relief party of six guides, to recover the corpse of his brother.
He felt thankful at least that his plans called for no reascent of the hill later.
A minute or so later, everyone heard her hurried descent of the rear stairs and a rattling and banging at the door at the foot of those same stairs, a few shrieked curses in both English and Norwegian, then a rapid reascent of those same rear stairs.
From the sensations I then had, I felt an inner conviction of the liveliest kind, that without some powerful and reviving stimulus I should either have died on the spot, or should at least have sunk to a point of exhaustion from which all reascent under my friendless circumstances would soon have become hopeless.