Noun
reinterment (countable and uncountable, plural reinterments)
The act of interring again after exhumation.
"If we have reburied the wrong one, nobody, I feel beyond reasonable doubt, would enjoy the situation more than Sterne" The story of the reinterment of Sterne's skull in Coxwold is alluded to in Malcolm Bradbury 's novel To The Hermitage. Source: Internet
The appeals court held that Jim Thorpe borough is not a "museum", as that term is used in NAGPRA, and that the plaintiffs therefore could not invoke that federal statute to seek reinterment of Thorpe's remains. Source: Internet
The Mayor of Leicester announced that the king's skeleton would be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral in early 2014, but a judicial review on that decision delayed the reinterment for a year. Source: Internet