unrepeal

English

Etymology

un- +‎ repeal

Verb

unrepeal (third-person singular simple present unrepeals, present participle unrepealing, simple past and past participle unrepealed)

1. To reverse a repeal; to restore a ruling or law that was repealed.
   • 1989, Congressional Record:

     Mr. Chairman, the Stark amendment, as I see it, is a last-ditch effort to resurrect the cat, the catastrophic care bill, and to unrepeal the repeal which we just passed.

   • 2010, Paul Christopherson, Pants on Fire: Cutting through the Biggest Lies of Twenty-first-Century American Plutocracy, →ISBN:

     But the one important reform would be to unrepeal Glass Steagall.

   • 2017 December 12, Faisal Islam, “Government scrambles to avoid defeat on EU Withdrawal bill”, in Sky News:

     Therefore it would unrepeal its repeal in the EU Withdrawal Bill.