restoration
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See also: Restoration
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- restauration (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English restoracion, altered from restauracion (from Latin restaurātiō) by partly deriving from restoren + -acion.[1] By surface analysis, restore + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]restoration (countable and uncountable, plural restorations)
- The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something.
- Synonym: restitution
- foreskin restoration
- The restoration of this painting will take years.
- The restoration of this medieval church involved undoing all the Victorian modifications.
- 1921, T.S. Eliot, “The Possibility of a Poetic Drama”, in The Sacred Wood:
- There is all the difference between preservation and restoration.
- 1945 July and August, “Victory in Europe”, in Railway Magazine, page 187:
- As Sir Ronald Matthews said at the meeting of L.N.E.R. stockholders earlier this year, the public must realise "the inevitability of a certain amount of gradualness" in connection with the restoration of passenger train services and facilities.
- The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down.
- The restoration of the House of Stuart took place a few years after the death of Cromwell.
- The restoration of the Kingdom of Spain took place immediately after the death of Franco.
- 1685, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius, published 1691, Act I, scene i, page 10:
- Behold the differing Climes agree, / Rejoycing in thy Reſtauration.
- 2023 December 8, Jennifer Senior, “What Will Happen to the American Psyche If Trump Is Reelected?”, in The Atlantic[1]:
- But now here we are, faced with the prospect of a Trump restoration.
- (theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the process of bringing an object back to its original state
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the return of a former monarchy or monarch to power
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References
[edit]- ^ “restoration, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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