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Indemnification

noun

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury. Synonyms: amends, damages, indemnity, redress, restitution.

An act of compensation for actual loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance.

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"Indemnification" Quotes from Famous Books

... another. Religious men and religious women were driven from their homes and brutally searched on their thresholds lest they should carry away with them anything that belonged to them. These religious people obtained, every month, as indemnification, twenty-five centimes each daily, and the aged forty centimes; but they were paid only when the treasury was in a condition to pay them, and this was not the case every month. The poor and the infirm, no longer sustained by Catholic charity, encumbered the hospitals or were associated ...

— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

... only pardon, but advance those that have, on any occasion, promoted its interest; and I hope it will not be too much power to be for once granted to the people, if they are empowered to throw a simple indemnification into the balance, and try whether with the slight addition of truth, and reason, and justice, it will be able to weigh down titles, ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11. - Parlimentary Debates II. • Samuel Johnson

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