restitutional
Adjective
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Adjective
restitutional
- Pertaining to or constituting restitution compensation for losses).
- 2008, Ananda Abeysekara, The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures, Columbia University Press (ISBN 9780231512671), page 210:
- “Thinking justice,” as he calls it, should move beyond this juridical, restitutional, reparational politics of justice. Restitutional justice always needs history, right, and law. Justice by means of restitutional politics becomes justice by means of "punishment, paymentm expiation"[.]
- 2008, Ananda Abeysekara, The Politics of Postsecular Religion: Mourning Secular Futures, Columbia University Press (ISBN 9780231512671), page 210:
- (sciences) Pertaining to or exhibiting restitution return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
- 1896, Philosophical Magazine, page 382:
- If the molecules are smooth, perfectly restitutional forceless spheres [...]
- 1908, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, page 970:
- And if the mass m, and the restitutional force were such that, at a foot from the centre, there was produced a restitutional force of F poundals {i.e., a restitutional force capable in one second of producing in a mass of 1 lb., an acceleration of F feet per second), then the time of vibration would be [...]
- 1896, Philosophical Magazine, page 382:
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