misrestoration

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ restoration

Noun

misrestoration (countable and uncountable, plural misrestorations)

1. (uncountable) The act or process of misrestoring.
   • 1895 January 26, “The Church of St. Mary, Harrow-on-the-Hill”, in The Builder, volume 68, number 2712, page 57:

     Misreport has acted on misrestoration, and vice versa, till both the genuine forms and their traditions have fatally suffered.

   • 1917, Aymer Vallance, “The History of Roods, Screens, and Lofts in the East Riding”, in The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, volume 24, page 133:

     As it stands at the present day the rood-screen has suffered much from mutilation, renovation, and misrestoration.

   • 1981, Studies in the History of Malwa - Volume 6, page 49:

     The recent repairs of the mutilated images have unfortunately resulted in their misrestoration.

2. (countable) A botched restoration.
   • 1943, Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer: Handlist, concordances, and illustrations, page 18:

     the inscribed date (1527) may easily be due to a misrestoration.

   • 1962, Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, page 27:

     The tubular spout, however, may be a misrestoration of an open or bridge-spout which would place the bowl in Type 7B .

   • 1972, Quintessence International, Dental Digest, page 44:

     Cutting complementation and hollow-grinding permitted by these rotary instruments can contribute significantly to successful restorative procedures by avoiding the mispreparation of teeth leading to misrestorations.

   • 1990, Jacob Neusner, Judaism and Christianity in the First Century, page 161:

     Graphically the gimel may be a misrestoration of a half-obliterated hē.