Definition of instauration in English:
instauration
noun ˌɪnstɔːˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌɪnstɔˈreɪʃ(ə)n
mass nounformal The action of restoring or renewing something.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the 1640s and 1650s, scientists had sought what they termed ‘a great instauration’.
- Consequently he no longer defines it solely as instauration of an object in the position of a subject's ego ideal without any concomitant ego-identification with another object or subject.
- The collapse of the Soviet Union, which led to the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the instauration of a new unipolar world order under the leadership of the United States, deprived NATO of its raison d'être.
- This regeneration and instauration of the sciences is with justice due to the age of a prince surpassing all others in wisdom and learning.
- The consequence of this instauration will be a world not destined to end, about now, in fire, like ours.
Derivatives
noun ˈɪnstɔːreɪtə
formal His advocacy of temperance was so effective that he has been formally recognized as the "instaurator" of the American temperance movement.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin instauratio(n-), from instaurare 'renew', from in- 'in, towards' + staur- (a stem also found in restaurare 'restore').
Definition of instauration in US English:
instauration
nounˌɪnstɔˈreɪʃ(ə)nˌinstôˈrāSH(ə)n
formal The action of restoring or renewing something.
Example sentencesExamples
- This regeneration and instauration of the sciences is with justice due to the age of a prince surpassing all others in wisdom and learning.
- The consequence of this instauration will be a world not destined to end, about now, in fire, like ours.
- Consequently he no longer defines it solely as instauration of an object in the position of a subject's ego ideal without any concomitant ego-identification with another object or subject.
- The collapse of the Soviet Union, which led to the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the instauration of a new unipolar world order under the leadership of the United States, deprived NATO of its raison d'être.
- In the 1640s and 1650s, scientists had sought what they termed ‘a great instauration’.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin instauratio(n-), from instaurare ‘renew’, from in- ‘in, towards’ + staur- (a stem also found in restaurare ‘restore’).