reëstablish

reëstablish (third-person singular simple present reëstablishes, present participle reëstablishing, simple past and past participle reëstablished)

1. Dated spelling of reestablish.
   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Leech and His Patient”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 164:

     It proved not difficult to reëstablish the intimacy of the two companions, on the same footing and in the same degree as heretofore.

• reëstablishment

• establisher