reünion

See also: reunion, Reunion, réunion, reunión, Réunion, rêunion, and re-union

English

Noun

reünion (plural reünions)

Alternative spelling of reunion
- 1861, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, editors, The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, volume 53, page 146:
  We are concerned with the fact — not with its genesis. Whether the war between France and Austria was unjust or unavoidable ; which party prepared, and which began, the conflict ; whether Louis Napoleon originally designed, and whether he now relishes, that creation of a Kingdom of United Italy, of which he was the undoubted instrument ; whether the citizens of the new state ought to be grateful to him for their emancipation and reünion, or to Providence for having overruled his purposes ; whether the cession of Savoy and Nice was a moderate and necessary, or a questionable and a needless, price ; how far the duplicity and misstatements which undeniably discredited the transaction, exceeded the recognized limits of diplomatic mystification […]
- 1868, Overture on Reünion: The Reports of the Joint Committee of the Two Assemblies of 1866–7, and of the Special Committee of the (N.S.) General Assembly of 1868, main title (Presbyterian Publication Committee: Edwin F. Hatfield)
  Overture on Reünion: The Reports of the Joint Committee of the Two Assemblies of 1866–7, and of the Special Committee of the (N.S.) General Assembly of 1868
- 1975, Institut marksizma-leninizma (Moscow, Russia) and Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED, Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA), volume 1, part 11, № 1, page 354 (Dietz)
  He speaks respectfully of the Peelites: “There was now no substantial obstacle to the reünion of the great Conservative party.”

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