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indemnification|ɪnˌdɛmnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[f. indemnify: see -fication.]
1. The action of compensating for actual loss or damage sustained; also the fact of being compensated; concr. the payment made with this object.
1732T. Lediard Sethos II. ix. 335 The only security we have left for our indemnification, is in our prisoners. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. i. 139 Giving him a full indemnification and equivalent for the injury thereby sustained. 1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. xiii. §3 The party injured loses all hope of indemnification. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 145 The unwillingness to pay a money indemnification was so insuperable..that the British Commissioners were induced to lower their demand.
b. The action of compensating for trouble, annoyance, etc.; concr. the recompense so rendered.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry ix. I. 294 The Franciscans..enjoyed from the popes the privilege of distributing indulgences, a valuable idemnification for their voluntary poverty. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 97 Not likely to accept..gorgeous philosophy..as an indemnification for irregular performance of public duties.
†2. ‘Security against loss or penalty’ (J.); indemnity. Obs. |