Vocabulary Word
Word: reparation
Definition: compensation (for loss or wrong); amends; Ex. make reparation for the damage; CF. repair
Definition: compensation (for loss or wrong); amends; Ex. make reparation for the damage; CF. repair
Sentences Containing 'reparation'
``Because, sir,''said the president,``you have insulted a man, and that man will not go one step farther without demanding honorable reparation.'''''
Those funds consist, partly in a certain number of days labour, which the country people are in most parts of Europe obliged to give to the reparation of the highways; and partly in such a portion of the general revenue of the state as the king chooses to spare from his other expenses.
But, by the present practice, both the labour of the country people, and whatever other fund the king may choose to assign for the reparation of the high-roads in any particular province or generality, are entirely under the management of the intendant; an officer who is appointed and removed by the king's council who receives his orders from it, and is in constant correspondence with it.
Under the local or provincial administration of the justices of the peace in Great Britain, the six days labour which the country people are obliged to give to the reparation of the highways, is not always, perhaps, very judiciously applied, but it is scarce ever exacted with any circumstance of cruelty or oppression.
The committee are accused of having sent out bricks and stones from England for the reparation of Cape Coast Castle, on the coast of Guinea; a business for which parliament had several times granted an extraordinary sum of money.
The whole expense of the church, including what is occasionally laid out for the building and reparation of churches, and of the manses of ministers, cannot well be supposed to exceed eighty or eighty-five thousand pounds a-year.
Search your memory, and if you find anything of this kind you need only tell me of it, and I promise you by the order of knighthood which I have received to procure you satisfaction and reparation to the utmost of your desire."
If it disturb you, and I owe Some reparation, it may be a Defence for me to let you know Don Quixote's tears are on the flow, And all for distant Dulcinea Del Toboso.
If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.'
'The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more.
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