repristination
repristination noun: restoration to an original or pure state.
Noun
repristination (countable and uncountable, plural repristinations)
- Restoration to an original or pure state.
- That trick is, the artificer melts up wax / With honey, so to speak; he mingles gold / With gold's alloy, and, duly tempering both, / Effects a manageable mass, then works: / But his work ended, once the thing a ring, / Oh, there's repristination!1868–1869, Robert Browning, “(please specify the page)”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC
Forms of repristination
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Origin of repristination
From re- + pristine + -ation.
Questions about repristination
- What does repristination mean?
- Repristination means restoration to an original or pure state.
- What part of speech is repristination?
- Repristination is a noun.
- What is the plural of repristination?
- The plural of repristination is repristinations.
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