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restitutionary

restitutionary adjective: pertaining to or constituting restitution.

Adjective

restitutionary

  1. Pertaining to or constituting restitution.
    • For Durkheim, the social cohesion of modern society was at its optimal level when there was proper and sufficient legal regulation of commercial transactions on the basis of restitutionary principles.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order

Origin of restitutionary

From restitution + -ary.

Questions about restitutionary

What does restitutionary mean?
Restitutionary means pertaining to or constituting restitution.
What part of speech is restitutionary?
Restitutionary is an adjective.

Words near restitutionary in the dictionary

  1. restituting
  2. restitutio ad integrum
  3. restitutio in integrum
  4. restitution
  5. restitutional
  6. restitutionary
  7. restitutionism
  8. restitutionist
  9. restitutionists
  10. restitutions
  11. restitutive

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