reponder

English

Etymology

re- +‎ ponder

Verb

reponder (third-person singular simple present reponders, present participle repondering, simple past and past participle repondered)

1. To ponder again.
   • 1968, Chih-tsing Hsia, The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction, page 287:

     In a far more dramatic and meaningful dream sequence (the didactic tone of the first dream sequence has been earlier commented upon), he sees again, now strangely indifferent if not actively hostile, the many lovely girls who have departed from the world, and he reponders their fate and the fate of those girls still alive in the light of the verses and emblems which he had found merely puzzling on his first visit to the region.

   • 1981, Joseph Mileck, Hermann Hesse: Life and Art, →ISBN, page 300:

     What had twice been pondered then put aside is now repondered and acted upon.

   • 1989, Brad Leithauser, Hence: a novel, page 243:

     The lucidity of hindsight, on the other hand, tells him, when he reponders all of these events some time later, that it was while he was sitting alone in the Topples Auditorium that the details surrounding his brother's disappearance first floated irretrievably into unreality.

   • 2015, Giraldi Cinthio, Giraldi Cinthio on Romances, →ISBN, page 171:

     First he pondered and repondered his poem for sixteen years after the first edition; never a day passed in this whole time that he was not about this, both with pen and with reflection.

Anagrams

• ponderer