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/rɪzˈəmpʃən/ /rizˈəmpʃən/ /rɪzˈəmʃən/ /rizˈəmʃən/ Listen

noun

Resumption n.

The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

(Eng.Law) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Resumption" Quotes from Famous Books

... war to cease; a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command, on condition of the disbandment of the Confederate armies, the distribution of the arms, and the resumption of peaceful pursuits by the officers and men ...

— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... afternoon wore on—(we had been up since 3 a.m. and were still hard at it in different fatigues)—a tendency to disparage holidays was noticed in some quarters, and when the next day we found ourselves in for a resumption of training pending further orders, the cynics had their innings. It lasted a fortnight—of crowded tents and extreme heat—the thermometer failing to fall much below 90 deg. all night. Reveille was at 4 a.m. and after three hours training, we came in for an eight o'clock breakfast, drenched ...

— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison

... by his family name of Bacon, "took all learning for his province"; and, though peaceful studies were again for a while rudely interrupted by the "dark deeds of horrid war," the restoration of peace was, as it had been before, a signal for the resumption of their studies by many of the best-born of the land. Another Earl of Dorset displayed his hereditary talent not less than his martial gallantry. Lord Roscommon well deserved the praises which Dryden and Pope, after his death, liberally bestowed. ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole

... Rue Royale then that her husband spent his evenings. This discovery was a great relief to her. It was not very wrong to go there, and if the Prince did go and smoke a few cigars and have a game at bouillotte, it was not a very great crime. The return of his usual friends to Paris and the resumption of their receptions would ...

— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

... the Czechs at the end of the eighteenth century meant the resumption of friendly relations between Czechs and Poles. The Czechs desired to come to an agreement with the Poles because the latter are their nearest kinsmen in race and language, and like themselves have suffered terribly from alien oppression. There were many Polonophils amongst ...

— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek

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