misrestoration
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mis- + restoration.
Noun
[edit]misrestoration (countable and uncountable, plural misrestorations)
- (uncountable) The act or process of misrestoring.
- 1895 January 26, “The Church of St. Mary, Harrow-on-the-Hill”, in The Builder, volume 68, number 2712, page 57:
- Misreport has acted on misrestoration, and vice versa, till both the genuine forms and their traditions have fatally suffered.
- 1917, Aymer Vallance, “The History of Roods, Screens, and Lofts in the East Riding”, in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 24, page 133:
- As it stands at the present day the rood-screen has suffered much from mutilation, renovation, and misrestoration.
- 1981, Studies in the History of Malwa - Volume 6, page 49:
- The recent repairs of the mutilated images have unfortunately resulted in their misrestoration.
- (countable) A botched restoration.
- 1943, Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer: Handlist, concordances, and illustrations, page 18:
- the inscribed date (1527) may easily be due to a misrestoration.
- 1962, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, page 27:
- The tubular spout, however, may be a misrestoration of an open or bridge-spout which would place the bowl in Type 7B .
- 1972, Quintessence International, Dental Digest, page 44:
- Cutting complementation and hollow-grinding permitted by these rotary instruments can contribute significantly to successful restorative procedures by avoiding the mispreparation of teeth leading to misrestorations.
- 1990, Jacob Neusner, Judaism and Christianity in the First Century, page 161:
- Graphically the gimel may be a misrestoration of a half-obliterated hē.