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形容詞

reparative (comparative more reparative, superlative most reparative)

1. Tending to or intended to repair.

   reparative surgery

   • 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his Booke De Proprietatibus Rerum, Book 7, Chapter 32, p. 98,^[1]

     Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe.

   • 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,^[2]

     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.

   • 1867, Anthony Trollope, Nina Balatka, Chapter 13,^[3]

     […] 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.

   • 2011, Ben Marcus, “What Have You Done?” The New Yorker, 8 August, 2011,^[4]

     They made up, saying all the reparative things, but it went only so far. Andrea assured him that everything was forgiven, except when he hung up and went inside it didn’t feel as if everything, or even anything, had been forgiven.

2. Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.

   reparative justice

   • 1998, Shay Bilchik, Guide for Implementing the Balanced and Restorative Justice Model, Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, p. 13,^[5]

     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.

   • 2014, Errin Haines Whack, “The ‘Case for Reparations’ is solid, and it’s long past time to make them,” The Guardian, 23 May, 2014,^[6]

     […] 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.