reidentify

English

Etymology

re- +‎ identify

Verb

reidentify (third-person singular simple present reidentifies, present participle reidentifying, simple past and past participle reidentified)

1. To identify again (as something one previously identified as, or as something else).
   • 2017 July 12, Thomas Robbins, In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, Routledge, →ISBN:

     The decision to remain Catholic (or to reidentify as Catholic) […]

   • 2021 June 17, Janette H. Ok, Constructing Ethnic Identity in 1 Peter: Who You Are No Longer, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

     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 […]

   • 2022 April 19, Dwight Newman, Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 454:

     ... with other scholars having discussed examples of African ethnic groups that came under pressure to reidentify as Indigenous peoples and  […]

2. To make identifiable again; to re-discern the identity of; for example, to undo deidentification of.
   • 2019 October 4, Stephen Holland, Ethics and Governance of Public Health Information, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 68:

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