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⛪ Ordaining again 🗂️ Rearranging order
reordination

reordination

9.9
The act of giving someone a religious position again
  • noun
  • /ˌriːɔːrˈdeɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : reordenación
  • The bishop officiated the reordination of the former minister after his conversion to Catholicism.

Examples

  • After completing the necessary training, she received her reordination to serve as a priest in her new church.

  • The plan soon collapsed because the Anglo-Catholics were unwilling to accept the recently defined dogma of papal infallibility and the proposal of conditional reordination.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The church requires a formal ceremony for the reordination of clergy who have left and returned to the ministry.

Surface Forms

reordination singular
reordinations plural

Morphology

reordination = ordination (transparent) = re + ordain + ation

Adding 're-' to 'ordination' straightforwardly gives the meaning of an ordination performed again.

Etymology

Reordination comes from the part re- meaning 'again' and ordination from a word for 'order' or 'rank', the same root as the common word order. In a church context, an 'ordination' gives someone a religious rank, so reordination is the act of giving that rank to someone 'again'.