reconceive
verb
re·con·ceive
(ˌ)rē-kən-ˈsēv
reconceived; reconceiving; reconceives
: to conceive (something) again or in a new form
Scholars like Esther Newton, Gayle Rubin, Anne Fausto-Sterling and Judith Butler ushered in an era that reconceived gender as a social construct, distinct from both a person's sex and sexuality.—Alissa Quart
Mr. Morgan explains how, in 17th- and 18th-century England and America, where modern liberty was born, government was reconceived to depend not on the divine right of kings but on the people.—Pauline Maier
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