reclamatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Reformative, corrective; (of a conversion) representing a return to orthodox religious faith and behavior.
Archaic
adj
Asking for repetition (and sometimes expressing doubt or confusion).
Example Sentences
- "This was a case of artificial reclamatory work done by the individual owners of the land beyond the foreshore, and the judgment of the Chief Justice (Osborne , C.J.) of the Nov. 5. Supreme Court of Southern Nigeria was affirmed, […]"
- "[…] imperceptible in the sense already described, becomes an addition to C the property of the adjoining land; the former has not this result, and the property of the original foreshore, thus suddenly altered by reclamatory work upon it, remains […]"
- "The reclamatory works are also going on side by side."
- "[…] and creeks, have become important sources of state ownership of land in Lagos, not so much in themselves, as by reason of reclamatory works which have freed them from the reach of the water and so converted them into dry land."
- "Certain Women, of the most obvious castratory and reclamatory type, actually specialize in telling horrible and insulting anti-woman jokes, in the same way that […]"
- "As to land reclamatory pieces, Smithson said that they involved 'a kind of dialectic between the ecologists and the industrialists'."
Etymology
Equivalent to reclaim (“return land to a suitable condition for use; claim back, repossess; return someone to a proper course of action, reform; cry out in opposition or contradiction”) + -atory. Compare exclamatory, declamatory.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: -atory