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instauration

[in-staw-rey-shuhn]

noun

renewal; restoration; renovation; repair.

Obsolete. an act of instituting something; establishment.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin instaurātiōn- (stem of instaurātiō) a renewing, repeating. See in-², store, -ation

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in·stau·ra·tor

[in-staw-rey-ter] , noun

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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instauration (ˌɪnstɔːˈreɪʃən)

—n
	rare restoration or renewal

[C17: from Latin instaurātiō, from instaurāre to renew]

'instaurator

—n

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