instauration
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin instauratio: compare French instauration.
Noun edit
instauration (countable and uncountable, plural instaurations)
- restoration after decay or dilapidation; renewal; repair
- 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The sacred theory of the earth:
- some great catastrophe or […] instauration
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “instauration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Translations edit
renewal; repair
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French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin īnstaurātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
instauration f (plural instaurations)
- establishment (of a government, regime etc.)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “instauration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.