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Vinony

rehabilitative

adjective

  1. helping to rehabilitate
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English rehabilitate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English rehabilitative From rehabilitate + -ive.

  1. Tending to rehabilitate.
  2. For the purpose of rehabilitation.

    “The broken windows theory by no means advocates the more rehabilitative or psychotherapeutic remedies that characterize certain of the institutions described in Discipline and Punish.”