reëlect

reëlect (third-person singular simple present reëlects, present participle reëlecting, simple past and past participle reëlected)

1. Dated spelling of reelect.
   • 1914, Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin with Albert Bushnell Hart, Cyclopedia of American Government, volume 3, New York; London: D. Appleton, keyword Texas, page 532:

     All judges are elected, and there is a strong tendency to reëlect indefinitely.

• The diaeresis ⟨◌̈⟩ is sometimes used in native words to separate two adjacent vowels with different pronunciations (e.g. coöperate and reënter). It has been mostly replaced by the use of a hyphen (co-operate and re-enter) or by no indication at all (cooperate and reenter). The accent mark is still used in a few publications, notably The New Yorker.

• electer, electre