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re·con·ceive | \ (ˌ)rē-kən-ˈsēv 
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\reconceived; reconceiving; reconceives
Definition of reconceive
: 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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