Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a manner or degree that tends to renew strength or vigor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a restorative manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
restorative manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Just the title of this post is restoratively courageous in the present environment.
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For the Bay Laurel -- _Laurus Nobilis_ of botanists -- happens to be not merely the evergreen, unfading plant into which Apollo metamorphosed, while pursuing, the maiden whom he loved, even as the poet, the artist turns into immortal shapes his own quite personal and transient moods, or as the fairest realities, nobly sought, are transformed, made evergreen and restoratively fragrant for all time in our memory and fancy.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895
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And he is to have it, not as a sacrament dispensed once for all and ended, but as a perpetual baptism, always distilling upon him, pledged to go with him, overliving his many faults and falls, and operating restoratively when it can not progressively, assisting repentances when it can not growths in good.
Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876
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If you craved something restoratively cheerful after that,
The Guardian World News Elisabeth Mahoney 2010
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If you craved something restoratively cheerful after that,
The Guardian World News Elisabeth Mahoney 2010
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