misrestoration

noun

1. (uncountable)The act or process of misrestoring.

   “Misreport has acted on misrestoration, and vice versa, till both the genuine forms and their traditions have fatally suffered.”

   “As it stands at the present day the rood-screen has suffered much from mutilation, renovation, and misrestoration.”

   “The recent repairs of the mutilated images have unfortunately resulted in their misrestoration.”

2. (countable)A botched restoration.

   “the inscribed date (1527) may easily be due to a misrestoration.”

   “The tubular spout, however, may be a misrestoration of an open or bridge-spout which would place the bowl in Type 7B .”

   “Cutting complementation and hollow-grinding permitted by these rotary instruments can contribute significantly to successful restorative procedures by avoiding the mispreparation of teeth leading to misrestorations.”

   “Graphically the gimel may be a misrestoration of a half-obliterated hē.”