resalute

verb — 2 senses

resalute

verb

UK /ɹiːsəˈluːt/

Etymology From Latin resalutare; or formed from re- + salute.

1

Obsolete To greet in return.

  • Whereas the Priestes she found full busily / About their holy things for morrow Mas; / Whom she saluting faire, faire resaluted was […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  • Hippocrates, after a little pause, saluted him by his name, whom he resaluted, ashamed almost that he could not call him likewise by his, or that he had forgot it., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.48
2

Archaic To salute again.

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