repristination

English

Etymology

re- +‎ pristine +‎ -ation

Noun

repristination (countable and uncountable, plural repristinations)

1. Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity.
   • 1868–1869, Robert Browning, “(please specify the page)”, in The Ring and the Book. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Smith, Elder and Co., →OCLC:

     That trick is, the artificer melts up wax / With honey, so to speak; he mingles gold / With gold's alloy, and, duly tempering both, / Effects a manageable mass, then works: / But his work ended, once the thing a ring, / Oh, there's repristination!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “repristination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• interspiration