reconquest means the act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory. It carries an Arena rating of 1351, earned across 11 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, reconquest ranks #2,066 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #2,970 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #3,136 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #5,075 of 17,131 for Scariest Words.
Why “reconquest” is a great word
The systematic military campaign to seize and subjugate a territory that was once held, lost, and is now deemed rightfully one’s own. From the prefix re- ("again") + conquest (from Old French conqueste, "acquisition by force"), probably after Middle French reconqueste (modern French reconquête). First attested in the 1540s. Unlike "recovery," which implies a simple retrieval, or "reoccupation," which suggests merely filling a space, reconquest is the reassertion of dominion by organized violence. It is the slow, bloody push across a peninsula to plant a banner on a lost citadel; the re-charted map, its new borders inked over the faint, ghostly lines of the old; the deliberate erasure of a foreign tongue from the marketplace and the courthouse—the solemn, brutal work of bending history back into its former shape.
Etymology
From re- + conquest (noun), probably after either the verb and reconquer, or Middle French reconquest, reconqueste (modern French reconquête).
noun
- The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory.e.g.“the reconquest of Spain”
verb
- Synonym of reconquer.
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