See redescend on Wiktionary
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"text": "1650, James Howell, Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, London: Humphrey Mosely, Letter 53, “A Hymne to the Blessed Trinity,” p. 67,\nTo thee sweet Spirit I return\nThat love wherwith my heart doth burn,\nAnd these bless’d notions of my brain\nI now breath up to thee again,\nO let them redescend, and still\nMy soul with holy raptures fill."
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