Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Tending to repair.
- adj. Relating to or of the nature of reparations.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of effecting or tending to effect repair; restoring to a sound or good state; tending to amend defect or make good: as, a reparative process.
- Pertaining to reparation or the making of amends.
- n. That which restores to a good state; that which makes amends.
Wiktionary
- adj. Tending to or intended to repair.
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
- n. That which repairs.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Repairing, or tending to repair.
- n. That which repairs.
Examples
“They endorse the use of so-called "reparative therapy" to "change" the sexual orientation of their clients, despite the fact that this form of "therapy" has been rejected by every major professional medical organization including the American Psychological Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Counseling Association.”
The Huffington Post: Wayne Besen: Apple Should Dump 'Ex-Gay' iPhone App
“This healing process is energized by what Jean Sanville calls the reparative instinct.”
The Huffington Post: Joseph Bobrow: Spirituality and the Road Home
“Restorative justice, also known as reparative justice, is a good example of a new approach to an old problem.”
“On Wednesday night, the American Psychological Association released a new statement that therapy to help gay people become straight known as reparative therapy by some doesn't work.”
What's the Connection?: Note to APA: Progressive Clergy Can Help Your Clients
“Its affiliates practice so-called reparative therapy, a form of counseling designed to turn gay people straight.”
“Finally, take note of that quote, which comes from a statement by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, that so-called reparative therapy is "nothing short of torture.”
“Aside to DTL: You're the one who brought up the whole gay thing with your references to Dr. Helen and her views on so-called reparative therapy, then 7Machos calls you on your threadjacking, and then you accuse him of being gay?”
“So people who think they need to turn from gay to straight sometimes turn to gay therapy, also known as reparative therapy, reorientation therapy, conversion therapy.”
“The debate about the value of conversion therapy, also known as reparative therapy, has been raging in psychological circles for more than a decade.”
“What Apple is saying here is that this so-called 'reparative therapy,' or a cure for gay people. has no place on the iTunes platform," Jones said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reparative’.
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A-R-A Words
It's an odd-looking pattern in English. Please add words if it makes you happy. :) K-POW! Wow @gulyasrobi!
scarab, Arawak, Sahara, Arab, pharaoh, caravan, carat, parachute, arachnid, Saran Wrap, Sarah, tarantella and 492 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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Sent Com
words to be delt with in sc
blighted, confute, ostentatious, blissful, vulgarity, verbosity, vocalization, garish, tonality, insentient, reparative, restorative and 15 more...
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ScholarWords
disquisition, treatise, purvey, tangentially, stare decisis, cricket, semiotics, originative, morass, pot-au-feu, verstehen, enigmatical and 84 more...
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While Europe Slept/America Alone/Amer...
Words gathered during my recent "current affairs" reading bender.
It's not an addiction, I can quit any time I want.proforma, distaff, senescent, simplisme, arrondissement, brasserie, cynosure, entente, inure, elision, contrariety, calumny and 53 more...
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