Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Security against damage, loss, or injury.
- n. A legal exemption from liability for damages.
- n. Compensation for damage, loss, or injury suffered. See Synonyms at reparation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Security given against or exemption granted from damage, loss, injury, or punishment.
- n. Indemnification; compensation for loss, damage, or injury sustained; reimbursement.
- n. In law, that which is given to a person who has assumed or is about to assume a responsibility at the request or for the benefit of another, in order to make good to him any loss or liability which has or may come upon him by so doing. More specifically— The actual reimbursement of such loss or discharge of such liability.
Wiktionary
- n. law an obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
- n. repayment
- n. law the right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
- n. insurance a principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty.
- n. Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained.
WordNet 3.0
- n. legal exemption from liability for damages
- n. protection against future loss
- n. a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
Etymologies
- From Middle French indemnité, from Late Latin indemnitas ("security from damage"), from Latin indemnis ("undamaged"), from in- ("not") + damnum ("damage"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English indempnite, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin indemnitās, from Latin indemnis, uninjured; see indemnify. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The objective of this plan is to make propaganda about the so called genocide, to have it recognised, to obtain indemnity and to acquire land from Turkey.”
“Venturelaw Blogspot (via good post by rick segal): In a financing, some VCs argue that it is not enough to rely on contractual remedies or to a receive an indemnity from the Company.”
“This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.”
Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen
“The purchase agreement will specify a process where the buyer can net out costs to satisfy the indemnity from the deferred money owed.”
“Such indemnity is simply unpayable unless the creditor nation is willing to receive it in the form of imports, and against this form of payment citizens will raise violent protest, calling it «dumping», «unfair competition», a violation of the very principles of the protectionist duties imposed for their benefit.”
“The indemnity is $2,000, practically the same as the indemnity in Canada.”
“The next public business of Jones was to attempt to collect indemnity from the Danish government for the delivery to England of the prizes sent by the mad Landais, during Jones's most famous cruise, to Bergen,”
“Her parents then demanded indemnity from the husband for the loss of their child, and the home became one of misery.”
“An act of indemnity is passed and published, through Christ”
“Pillage, loot, incendiarism, "indemnity" -- you can read that in the records of the invasion of Belgium; that is war; it is all right if war is to be, for all this talk of chivalrous consideration for foes and regard for international law is all nonsense; necessity, as”
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915
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