Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not restored; not given back.
  • Not restored to a former, and especially a better, state: as, unrestored health; unrestored to favor.
  • In the fine arts, remaining, as a work of art, in the condition in which its author left it, save for damage of time, from the elements, etc. Compare restoration, 2.

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  • adjective Not having been restored

Etymologies

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un- +‎ restored

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Examples

  • An "unrestored" copy of Action Comics #1 (1938), the first appearance of Superman, is expected to sell for $400,000.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Warners somehow managed to get through six Looney Tunes DVD collections and almost more than 300 restored cartoons without including a single cartoon from this series an "unrestored" print of "Hippety Hopper" is included as a bonus on volume 6, making it the least-appreciated of WB's successful cartoon series.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • Warners somehow managed to get through six Looney Tunes DVD collections and almost more than 300 restored cartoons without including a single cartoon from this series an "unrestored" print of "Hippety Hopper" is included as a bonus on volume 6, making it the least-appreciated of WB's successful cartoon series.

    Hippety Hopper - Not Necessarily The Worst Cartoon Series Ever Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • An "unrestored" copy of Action Comics #1 (1938), the first appearance of Superman, is expected to sell for

    Dogmatic 2009

  • An "unrestored" copy of Action Comics #1 (1938), the first appearance of Superman, is expected to sell for

    Dogmatic 2009

  • An "unrestored" copy of Action Comics #1 (1938), the first appearance of Superman, is expected to sell for

    Dogmatic 2009

  • Warners somehow managed to get through six Looney Tunes DVD collections and almost 300 restored cartoons without including a single cartoon from this series (an "unrestored" print of "Hippety Hopper" is included as a bonus on volume 6), making it the least-appreciated of WB's successful cartoon series.

    Something Old, Nothing New 2008

  • The missing limbs and head of the unrestored, Roman "Torso of a Draped Female" seem utterly dispensable when the sculpture is seen in the company of "The Poet's Anguish" 1914-15, one of many enigmatic paintings in which de Chirico crowns an armless classical statue with a metaphysical mannequin's head.

    A Dialogue Across Centuries Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

  • • With less than five days until the end of the auction, the top bid for that unrestored copy of Action Comics #1 is $277,300.

    Food or Comics | A roundup of money-related news | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • A century ago, Mahbub Ali Khan, the super-rich ruler of Hyderabad, asked Rolls to build him a yellow "throne car" with silver fittings and a glass cabin enclosing a personal perch upholstered in silk brocade unrestored, above.

    Travel News: Inspirato, The Berkeley, Cartier's Concours d'Elegance India 2011

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