Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Restoration to the pristine form or state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity.
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- noun
Restoration to an originalstate ;renewal ofpurity .
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Examples
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A scheme for the repristination of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from weedbeds.
Ulysses 2003
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STRENGTH AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.
Ulysses 2003
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The ceiling was restored in stages, but the Judgment was entirely closed in for the years of its repristination.
Hunt for the Last Judgment Wills, Garry 1995
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A scheme for the repristination of passenger and goods traffics over Irish waterways, when freed from weedbeds.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Obtain It_ which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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It has indeed been said that we cannot ascribe the creation of such a work to an age which was bent on nothing but repristination.
Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881
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With it, we are aware in much of the art of the day of a certain feverish tentativeness, groping, as it were, sometimes after a new spirit, sometimes after a repristination of the old in a modern form; but everywhere, I repeat, we see Life.
Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870
ruzuzu commented on the word repristination
Is there a list of "nations?"
September 9, 2010
bilby commented on the word repristination
No, but there's an indigestion tax for entering central London.
September 9, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word repristination
Tell me more about this tax, bilby--I know your profile mentions Elizabeth I, herbs, bitterness, and prunes, so I'm going to make the leap and assume you're also an expert about indigestion. Did the tax fund Elizabeth's repristination?
September 9, 2010
bilby commented on the word repristination
I'm not sure Her Travesty had anything to do with it. The problem was that the city was choking on traffic so the aim of the tax was not so much intestinal revenue as to reduce the number of comestibles entering the city.
September 9, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word repristination
Yes, well I'm sure it took a bit of "intestinal fortitude" to deny entry to all of those tempting tarts and other morsels.
September 9, 2010