Reparation

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reparation \Rep`a*ra"tion\ (-r?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]paration, L.
     reparatio. See {Repair} to mend.]
     1. The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of
        being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge
        or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used.
        --Arbuthnot.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or
        compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing
        done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity; --used,
        e.g. in the phrase
  
     {make reparation},
  
     {pay reparations}, or
  
     {make reparations}.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
              I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my
              loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
                                                    --Dryden.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Restoration; repair; restitution; compensation; amends;
          satisfaction.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reparation
       n 1: compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury;
            "an act for which there is no reparation"
       2: (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation
          by the victors; "Germany was unable to pay the reparations
          demanded after Wordl War I"
       3: the act of putting something in working order again [syn: {repair},
           {fix}, {fixing}, {fixture}, {mend}, {mending}]
       4: something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I
          make amends" [syn: {amends}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "reparation":
     adjustment, amends, atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation,
     compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, correction,
     counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation,
     expiatory offering, fixing, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification,
     indemnity, lex talionis, making amends, making good, making right,
     making up, meed, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling,
     paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiation,
     quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption,
     redress, refund, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, repair,
     repairing, repayment, reprisal, requital, requitement, restitution,
     retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, salvage,
     satisfaction, settlement, smart money, solatium, squaring,
     substitution, troubleshooting, wergild
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REPARATION. The redress of an injury; amends for a tort inflicted. Vide 
  Remedy; Redress. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  REPARATION, n.  Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted
  from the satisfaction felt in committing it.