Restitute vs Reply - What's the difference?
restitute | reply |
To restore (something) to its former condition.
To provide recompense for (something).
* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
* 1966 , , Incest (1993 edition), ISBN 9780156443005,
* 1980 , , Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate , ISBN 9780801491856,
To refund.
* 2004 , , Private Sector , ISBN 9780446613934,
(intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
To act or gesture in response.
* 1988 , Emmanuel Doe Ziorklui, Ghana: Nkrumah to Rawlings
To repeat something back; to echo.
A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
Something given in reply.
In transitive terms the difference between restitute and reply
is that restitute is to refund while reply is : He replied that he was not sure.restitute
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Verb
(restitut)- . . . when Frederick M. (Bantam) Lyons had rapidly and successively requested, perused and restituted the copy of the current issue of the Freeman's Journal and National Press which he had been about to throw away (subsequently thrown away), he had proceeded towards the oriental edifice of the Turkish and Warm Baths. . . .
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- What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
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- [W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
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- We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.
reply
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Verb
(en-verb)- Please reply to my letter.
- "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.
- He replied that he was not sure.
- Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
- It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire
