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▪ I. restoring, vbl. n.|rɪˈstɔərɪŋ| [f. restore v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb.; restoration.
a1350St. Nicholas 441 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 16 Trowand so..Of his gudes to haue restoring. 1382Wyclif Prol. to 1 Sam., The restorynge of the temple vndur Zorobabel. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 48 Þer schal be maad a maner of restorynge in place of the boon þat was broken. 1538Starkey England i. iv. 142 To-morow, when we schal speke of the restoryng of thes fautys rehersyd before. 1587Golding De Mornay xxxii. (1592) 522 And what is the restoring of sight, but the restoring of a substance? 1617Hieron Wks. II. 63 There hee doth desire the restoring thereof. Restoring is properly the rendring backe of a thing lost. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ ii. vi. §13 Abimelechs restoring of Sarah was the ground why the sentence..was not executed upon him. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ix. 393 A walk upon the land would contribute greatly to the restoring of his health. 1861Trench Comm. Ep. Churches Asia 60 A restoring of harmony between the sinner and the outraged law of God. 1893F. F. Moore I forbid Banns (1899) 108 The building had not been subjected to that system of spoliation known as ‘restoring’. attrib.1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. ii. (Bodl. MS.), Þouȝe he bere manye bowes in þe restoringe tyme, ȝitte he bereþ but litel frute. ▪ II. reˈstoring, ppl. a. [-ing2.] That restores.
1661Boyle Style of Script. 49 By him, who..is pleased to make restoring grace operate. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 399 Boil this restoring Root in gen'rous Wine. c1715Dunton (title), Frank Scammony, or the Restoring Clergy Detected. 1818Keats Endym. iii. 644, I..next tell How a restoring chance came down to quell One half of the witch in me. 1904Blackw. Mag. Apr. 575/1 He is as violent an iconoclast as a ‘restoring’ architect. |