Crossword-Solution: REPARATIVE 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Reparative a. Repairing, or tending to repair.
Reparative n. That which repairs.

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Aiming to fix 1 answer
Correcting defects. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REPARATIVE (5)

The corset--half the time it is a corset of a reparative kind--lies where it is thrown, if the maid is too sleepy to take it away with her.
Ferragus Honore de Balzac 1999
Darton was not a man to act rapidly, and the working out of his reparative designs might have been delayed for some time.
Wessex Tales Thomas Hardy 2002
How, then, in accordance with our hypothesis can we account for mutilations being sometimes strongly inherited, if they are followed by diseased action? The answer probably is that all the gemmules of the mutilated or amputated part are gradually attracted to the diseased surface during the reparative process, and are there destroyed by the morbid action.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Charles Darwin 2019
The third or reparative stage, as its name indicates, is one of repair, in which by constructive changes the epithelial lining which was thrown off is replaced by new, which is formed in from three to four days.
The Four Epochs of Woman's Life Anna M. Galbraith 2002
The first is that animalization is affected almost as vegetation is, that is that the reparative current formed by digestion, is inhaled in various manners by the tubes with which the organs are provided, and becomes flesh, nails, hair, precisely as earth, watered by the same fluid, becomes radish, lettuce, potato,--as the gardener pleases.
The Physiology of Taste Brillat Savarin 2004

Quotes with REPARATIVE (2)

While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the family of the family. If the family of the family has various sicknesses, then all families within that culture will have to struggle with the same malaises. There is a saying cultura cura, culture cures. If the culture is a healer, the families learn how to heal; they will struggle less, be more reparative, far less wounding, far more gra…
Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Our sin is our resistance to going along with God's initiative in making suffering reparative. We are deeply drawn towards God, but we also sense how following him will dislocate and transform beyond recognition the forms which have made life tolerable for us. We often react with fear, dismay, hostility. We are at war with ourselves, and responding differently to this inner conflict, we end up at war with each other. So it is undoubtedly true that the result of sin is much su…
Charles Taylor A Secular Age
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT.

Used 2 times in crossword archives (1961–2018).