rehabilitative

English

Etymology

From rehabilitate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

rehabilitative (comparative more rehabilitative, superlative most rehabilitative)

  1. Tending to rehabilitate.
  2. For the purpose of rehabilitation.
    • 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 5, in Illusion of Order:
      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.
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