单词 | indemnification |
释义 | indemnificationn. 1. a. The action of compensating for actual loss or damage sustained; also the fact of being compensated; concrete the payment made with this object. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > compensation > for loss or damage recompense1473 assythmentc1540 emends1542 reprise?1577 assything1708 indemnification1732 make-up1817 1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. ix. 335 The only security we have left for our indemnification, is in our prisoners. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. i. 139 Giving him a full indemnification and equivalent for the injury thereby sustained. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xiii. §3 The party injured loses all hope of indemnification. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. iv. 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.; concrete the recompense so rendered. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun] > compensation > for trouble or annoyance assythc1375 indemnification1774 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ix. 294 The Franciscans..enjoyed from the popes the privilege of distributing indulgences, a valuable indemnification for their voluntary poverty. 1834 T. De Quincey S. T. Coleridge in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 594/1 Not likely to accept..gorgeous philosophy..as an indemnification for irregular performance of public duties. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1732 |
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