reknow

English

Etymology

re- +‎ know

Verb

reknow (third-person singular simple present reknows, present participle reknowing, simple past reknew, past participle reknown)

1. (chiefly philosophy) To know again; to relearn or understand anew.
   • 1885 November, E. E. White, “The Philosophy of Teaching”, in The Illinois School Journal, volume 5, number 7, page 160:

     The teacher’s special function is to lead the pupil to reknow these elements, and by thought to attain the desired knowledge.

   • 1988, Nancy R. Harrison, Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women’s Text, →ISBN, page 45:

     In recognizing one another in our aesthetic constructs, in coming to reknow one another, we come to reknow ourselves as well.

   • 1993, Philip Allott, “Self-Determination - Absolute Right or Social Poetry?”, in Christian Tomuschat, editor, Modern Law of Self-Determination, →ISBN, page 179:

     It is a story of human beings constantly reknowing themselves as the reciprocal of the self-reknowing of others.

   • 1998, Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 17:

     And only then, when he has recovered his true self, does he uncover, or reknow, the true distinctions, identifying erōs as a divine gift, and distinguishing between “good” and “bad” madness—a distinction that is essential if human beings are to have a true understanding of themselves and what they experience in love.