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repristinate

American  
[ree-pris-tuh-neyt] / riˈprɪs təˌneɪt /

verb (used with object)

repristinated, repristinating

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

Other Word Forms

  • repristination noun

Etymology

Origin of repristinate

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

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

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