restitutional
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to or constituting restitution (compensation for losses).
adj
Pertaining to or exhibiting restitution (return or restoration to a previous condition or position).
Example Sentences
- "“Thinking justice,” as he calls it, should move beyond this juridical, restitutional, reparational politics of justice. Restitutional justice always needs history, right, and law. Justice by means of restitutional politics becomes justice by means of "punishment, paymentm expiation"[.]"
- "If the molecules are smooth, perfectly restitutional forceless spheres [...]"
- "And if the mass m, and the restitutional force were such that, at a foot from the centre, there was produced a restitutional force of F poundals (i.e., a restitutional force capable in one second of producing in a mass of 1 lb., an acceleration of F feet per second), then the time of vibration would be [...]"
Etymology
From restitution + -al.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: restitution
- Suffix: -al