reparative

Definitions

1. 1

   Tending to or intended to repair.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.

   • reparative justice
   • […] social media was ablaze for days in anticipation of this month’s Atlantic cover story arguing in favor of reparative payments to African-Americans for state-sanctioned slavery and segregation.
3. 3

   That which repairs.

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