Synonyms:
Reconstruction, Reconstruction_Period
Meaning: the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877
Synonyms:
reconstruction
Meaning: the activity of constructing something again
Usage examples
It would certainly occasion reconstruction.
Here was the beginning the woman had spoken of--little opening clue. Entire reconstruction lay perhaps beyond.
Well! of this charter and this code not one article shall be left standing upon another! The time has come for the wise to choose their course, and prepare for reconstruction.
They asked him to undertake the reconstruction of the schools of design, and they gave him an office which placed him practically at the head of the various institutions designed to promote the application of art to manufacture.
The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
One of these, from a machine which happened to be set in telescopic focus, shows several views of great value in picturing the falls of the other ships, and all of the rear projectoscope records enable the reconstruction in detail of the pendulum and torsional movements of the ship, and its sag toward the earth.