reënter

• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)

reënter (third-person singular simple present reënters, present participle reëntering, simple past and past participle reëntered)

1. Rare spelling of reenter.
   • 1900, Booker T[aliaferro] Washington, “Helping Others”, in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 66:

     To my gratification he told me I could reënter the institution, and that he would trust me to pay the debt when I could.

   • 1913, Henry Gray, Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied, new American/18th English edition, Philadelphia, New York: Lea & Febiger, page 762:

     It consists chiefly of intersegmental fibres which arise from cells in the gray substance, and, after a longer or shorter course, reënter the gray substance and ramify in it.

   • 1922, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Introduction”, in Fantasia of the Unconscious, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 11:

     I am almost ashamed to say, that I believe the souls of the dead in some way reënter and pervade the souls of the living: so that life is always the life of living creatures, and death is always our affair.

   • 1933, Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts, London: Picador Classics:

     The cripple returned the smile and stuck out his hand. Miss Lonelyhearts clasped it, and they stood this way, smiling and holding hands, until Mrs. Doyle reëntered the room.

• enterer, re-entre, reentre, terreen, terrene