# restoration

Pronunciation: say "res-tuh-RAY-shuhn" /ɹɛstəˈɹeɪʃən/

## Noun

1. The process of returning something to its original condition or earlier state.
   - Simple: The work of fixing something so it looks or works like it did before.
   - _The careful restoration of the medieval manuscript revealed its original colors._
   - _Restoration of the wetlands brought back native birds and plants within a few years._
2. An item produced by restoring something, such as a dental prosthesis that repairs or replaces a tooth.
   - Simple: An object that has been fixed or rebuilt, like a filling that repairs a tooth.
   - _The crown was the most expensive restoration the patient had ever needed._
   - _Conservators catalogued each restoration applied to the fresco over the centuries._
3. The return of a former monarch or monarchy to power, often after a period of being forced out.
   - Simple: The return of a king or queen to power after being removed.
   - _The restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 ended a decade of republican rule._
   - _Loyalists worked for years toward the restoration of the exiled queen._
4. The return of an earlier socioeconomic formation to its position as the dominant mode of production.
   - Simple: The return of an older type of economy, so that it again becomes the main way a society makes things.
   - _Marxist theorists debated whether the restoration of capitalism in former socialist states was inevitable._
   - _He warned that any restoration of the old mode of production would reverse decades of reform._
5. The act of receiving a sinner back into divine favor and grace.
   - Simple: When a person who has done wrong is welcomed back by God.
   - _The doctrine teaches the restoration of the penitent to full divine favor._
   - _Through confession and grace, the believer longed for restoration to God's favor._

## Origin

From Middle English restoracion, altered from restauracion (from Latin restaurātiō), and partly shaped by restoren plus the suffix -acion. In effect, it is restore plus -ation.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/restoration (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).