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English
Etymology
From re- + speak.
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Verb
respeak (third-person singular simple present respeaks, present participle respeaking, simple past respoke or (archaic, poetic) respake, past participle respoken)
- To speak or utter again.
- (television) To repeat the words of a televised person so that they can be electronically recognised and used to generate subtitles.
- (poetic, obsolete) To answer; to echo.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , lines 127-128:And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
Re-speaking earthly thunder.
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