Apr. 13th, 2007

redux

Apr. 13th, 2007 07:20 am
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redux - adj., brought back, returned, resurgent.


Always used postpositively, as in Trollope's novel Phineas Redux. From Latin, meaning returning (as from war or exile), from redūcere, to bring back.

---L.
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