Bible Dictionaries
Reconstruction
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) The act or process of reorganizing the governments of the States which had passed ordinances of secession, and of reestablishing their constitutional relations to the national government, after the close of the Civil War.
(2):
(n.) The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Reconstruction'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/reconstruction.html. 1828.