repristinate
Americanverb (used with object)
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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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