restirring

English

Noun

restirring (plural restirrings)

1. Stirring again.
   • 1968, Douglass Price-Williams, “The Philosophy of Science and the Study of Personality”, in Edward Norbeck, Douglass Price-Williams, William M. McCord, editors, The Study of Personality: An Interdisciplinary Appraisal, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., →LCCN, part one (Theoretical Standpoints), page 99:

     This idea dates back, I suppose, to the philosophy of G. H. Mead; in a more modern form it can be found in the writings of Harry Stack Sullivan (1953; see also Mullahy 1949; i952) and Daniel Miller (Miller 1961), and has had restirrings within the framework of social psychology (see Asch 1959).

   • 1976, Glenn Blakesley, “The Astrology of the Soul”, in Gnostica, volume 5, number 3 (whole 39), Llewellyn Publications, page 61:

     No matter what stage of evolution the soul is at, planets in these three signs indicate some type of primordial beginnings or restirrings in some aspect of spiritual life.

   • 1988, Kimberly Cates, Crown of Mist, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 322:

     Brianna shuddered involuntarily, feeling icy fingers creep ’neath the edges of her courage. She forced her eyes back to Creigh, drawing strength, hope from his beloved features, quelling the restirrings of fear.

   • 1991, Alan Nielsen, The Great Victorian Sacrilege: Preachers, Politics and The Passion, 1879–1884, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 236:

     And these recent, growing restirrings of the demand that the state’s police power be employed to protect religious feelings illustrate an important point made by Rodney Smolla: […]

   • 1999, John D. Barrow, “The popularisation of science”, in Between Inner Space and Outer Space: Essays on Science, Art, and Philosophy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1:

     Scientists have found new things to say about these problems that are not merely restirrings of the brew of philosophical opinions we have inherited from thinkers of the past.

   • 2005, Deanna Portz, editor, Men’s Health Today 2005: Get Ahead in Everything You Do, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 222:

     And the early restirrings of my romantic (if that’s the right word) life have defrosted a few insights I might not have remembered to give him as he makes his first foray into the world of women.

Verb

restirring

1. present participle and gerund of restir