reparative

/ɹɪˈpɛəɹətɪv/

reparative adjective: tending to or intended to repair.

Adjective

reparative (comparative more reparative, superlative most reparative)

Tending to or intended to repair.
- reparative surgery
- Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe.1582, Stephen Batman, transl., Batman vppon Bartholome his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, Book 7, Chapter 32, p. 98
Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
- reparative justice
- Intended for offenders of misdemeanor or nonviolent felony crimes, the Reparative Probation Program directly involves community members meeting face to face with offenders to negotiate a “reparative agreement” that specifies how offenders will make reparation to their victims and other community...1998, Shay Bilchik, Guide for Implementing the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model, Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, page 13

reparative (plural reparatives)

(rare) That which repairs.
- […] the Dukes fame did still remain more and more in obliquie among the masse of people, whose judgements are only reconciled with good successes, so as he saw plainly that he must abroad again to rectifie with his best endeavour under the publike service, his own reputation; Whereupon new...1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham, London: William Sheares, page 22
- It is better to lay out a little more money on a good job of plumbing at the start, than to be obliged to continually lay out money for reparatives on a poor job.1891, Newark and Its Leading Businessmen, Newark, New Jersey: Mercantile Publishing Company, John Sanders, Practical Plumber, p. 80

جبرانی

To go to law for revenge, we are simply forbidden, that is, to returne evill for evill; and therefore all those suits, which are for vindictive sentences, not for reparative, are directly criminall.1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution, Worcester: Francis Ash, Part 2...
They made up, saying all the reparative things, but it went only so far.2011 August 8, Ben Marcus, “What Have You Done?”, in The New Yorker:
[…] social media was ablaze for days in anticipation of this month’s Atlantic cover story arguing in favor of reparative payments to African-Americans for state-sanctioned slavery and segregation.2014 May 23, Errin Haines Whack, “The ‘Case for Reparations’ is solid, and it’s long past time to make them”, in The Guardian:

What does reparative mean?: Reparative means tending to or intended to repair.
What is reparative in Urdu?: Reparative in Urdu is جبرانی. See Reparative meaning in Urdu.
How do you use reparative in a sentence?: To go to law for revenge, we are simply forbidden, that is, to returne evill for evill; and therefore all those suits, which are for vindictive sentences, not for reparative, are directly criminall.
What part of speech is reparative?: Reparative can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce reparative?: Reparative is pronounced /ɹɪˈpɛəɹətɪv/.

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