reparative
/ɹɪˈpɛəɹətɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
noun
That which repairs.
Example Sentences
- "reparative surgery"
- "Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe."
- "To go to law for revenge, we are simply forbidden, that is, to returne evill for evill; and therefore all those suits, which are for vindictive sentences, not for reparative, are directly criminall."
- "[…] garments had come to her which were old and worn, bearing unmistakable signs of Lotta’s coarse but reparative energies — raiment against which her feminine niceness would have rebelled, had it been possible for her, in her misfortunes, to indulge her feminine niceness."
- "They made up, saying all the reparative things, but it went only so far. Andrea assured him that everything was forgiven, except when he hung up and went inside it didn’t feel as if everything, or even anything, had been forgiven."
- "reparative justice"