repristinate

[ree-pris-tuh-neyt]

verb (used with object)

repristinated, repristinating 

1. to restore to the first or original state or condition.

Other Word Forms

• repristination noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of repristinate¹

1650–60; re- + pristine + -ate ¹; compare Medieval Latin repristinātiō

Example Sentences

The soaring Buckley vision of man's rights, in fact, might "repristinate" the jaded international bureaucracy.

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