ppl. a. (UN-1 8; cf. RECONSTRUCTION 1 b.)

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1869.  Nation, 25 March, 221/2. Butler’s Committee on Reconstruction reported in favor of extending … the time during which an ‘unreconstructed’ Southerner may retain his Government employment.

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1877.  Longf., in Life (1891), III. 277. A letter from Mr. —, of Washington, a fierce and ‘unreconstructed’ rebel.

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