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Revindicate vs Restitute - What's the difference?

revindicate | restitute |

As verbs the difference between revindicate and restitute

is that revindicate is to vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back while restitute is to restore (something) to its former condition.

As a noun restitute is

that which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.

revindicate

English

Verb

  • To vindicate again; to reclaim; to demand and take back.
  • :to revindicate a right, claim or title

    • restitute

    English

    Verb

    (restitut)
  • To restore (something) to its former condition.
  • To provide recompense for (something).
  • * 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
    • . . . 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. . . .
  • * 1966 , , Incest (1993 edition), ISBN 9780156443005, p. 28:
    • What I spill in talk or acts rarely is restituted in writing.
  • * 1980 , , Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate , ISBN 9780801491856, p. 266:
    • [W]hat it represents is the inability of language to restitute the loss of memory.
  • To refund.
  • * 2004 , , Private Sector , ISBN 9780446613934, p. 31:
    • We were even ordered to restitute the legal costs of the defendants.

    Related terms

    * restitution

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is restored or offered in place of something; a substitute.
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