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misrestoration

misrestoration noun: the act or process of misrestoring.

Noun

misrestoration (countable and uncountable, plural misrestorations)

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of misrestoring.
    • Misreport has acted on misrestoration, and vice versa, till both the genuine forms and their traditions have fatally suffered.1895 January 26, “The Church of St. Mary, Harrow-on-the-Hill”, in The Builder, volume 68, number 2712, page 57
    • As it stands at the present day the rood-screen has suffered much from mutilation, renovation, and misrestoration.1917, Aymer Vallance, “The History of Roods, Screens, and Lofts in the East Riding”, in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 24, page 133
  2. (countable) A botched restoration.
    • the inscribed date (1527) may easily be due to a misrestoration.1943, Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer: Handlist, concordances, and illustrations, page 18
    • The tubular spout, however, may be a misrestoration of an open or bridge-spout which would place the bowl in Type 7B .1962, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, page 27

Examples of misrestoration in a sentence

  • The recent repairs of the mutilated images have unfortunately resulted in their misrestoration.1981, Studies in the History of Malwa - Volume 6, page 49:
  • Graphically the gimel may be a misrestoration of a half-obliterated hē.1990, Jacob Neusner, Judaism and Christianity in the First Century, page 161:

Forms of misrestoration

pluralmisrestorations

Origin of misrestoration

From mis- + restoration.

Questions about misrestoration

What does misrestoration mean?
Misrestoration means the act or process of misrestoring.
How do you use misrestoration in a sentence?
The recent repairs of the mutilated images have unfortunately resulted in their misrestoration.
What part of speech is misrestoration?
Misrestoration is a noun.
What is the plural of misrestoration?
The plural of misrestoration is misrestorations.

Words near misrestoration in the dictionary

  1. misresponded
  2. misresponding
  3. misresponds
  4. misresponse
  5. misresponses
  6. misrestoration
  7. misrestorations
  8. misrestore
  9. misrestored
  10. misrestores
  11. misrestoring

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