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English
Etymology
From Middle French recommencer, from Old French recommencier.
Verb
recommence (third-person singular simple present recommences, present participle recommencing, simple past and past participle recommenced)
- To begin again.
1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XXIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.
2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in Rail, page 40:[...] Prosser was instrumental in the decision in 2010 to recommence publication of an annual health and safety report, following a period when it had fallen into abeyance.
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French
Verb
recommence
- inflection of recommencer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative