Definition of "reparative"
reparative
adjective
comparative more reparative, superlative most reparative
Tending to or intended to repair.
Quotations
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.
1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution, Worcester: Francis Ash, Part 2, Discourse 10, p. 135
[…] garments had come to her which were old and worn, bearing unmistakable signs of Lotta’s coarse but reparative energies — raiment against which her feminine niceness would have rebelled, had it been possible for her, in her misfortunes, to indulge her feminine niceness.
1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 13, in Nina Balatka
Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
Quotations
Intended for offenders of misdemeanor or nonviolent felony crimes, the Reparative Probation Program directly involves community members meeting face to face with offenders to negotiate a “reparative agreement” that specifies how offenders will make reparation to their victims and other community members.
1998, Shay Bilchik, Guide for Implementing the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model, Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, page 13
[…] 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.
2014 May 23, Errin Haines Whack, “The ‘Case for Reparations’ is solid, and it’s long past time to make them”, in The Guardian
noun
plural reparatives
Quotations
[…] the Dukes fame did still remain more and more in obliquie among the masse of people, whose judgements are only reconciled with good successes, so as he saw plainly that he must abroad again to rectifie with his best endeavour under the publike service, his own reputation; Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at Sea:
1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villers, Duke of Buckingham, London: William Sheares, page 22