Word Meanings - REPARATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 2. The act of making amends or giving satisfaction

Additional info about word: REPARATION

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. 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. make reparation or reparations. I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able. Dryden. Syn. -- Restoration; repair; restitution; compensation; amends; satisfaction.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPARATION)

• Amends
• compensation
• satisfaction
• acknowledgment
• atonement
• expiation
• recompense
• indemnity
• remuneration
• apology
• reparation
• restitution
• Remedy
• Cure
• restorative
• counteraction
• redress
• relief
• help
• specific
• Restitution
• Restoration
• return
• indemnification
• amends
• Recovery
• replacement
• renewal
• renovation
• redintegration
• re-establishment
• revival

Related words: (words related to REPARATION)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• APOLOGY
  1. Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem;
• RENOVATION
  The act or process of renovating; the state of being renovated or renewed. Thomson. There is something inexpressibly pleasing in the annual renovation of the world. Rabbler.
• RELIEFLESS
  Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
• INDEMNITY
  1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. Sir W. Scott. 2.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• RESTORATIVELY
  In a restorative manner.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• REPARATION
  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. 2. The act of making amends or giving satisfaction
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• RECOMPENSER
  One who recompenses. A thankful recompenser of the benefits received. Foxe.
• RESTITUTION
  The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body. (more info) 1. The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or
• REVIVALISM
  The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
• RELIEF
  A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant. (more info) 1. The
• RELIEFFUL
  Giving relief.
• REDRESS
  1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves. Hooker. 2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression;
• RECOMPENSEMENT
  Recompense; requital. Fabyan.
• REDRESSIBLE
  Such as may be redressed.
• EXPIATION
  1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving. 2. The means by which reparation
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• UNSATISFACTION
  Dissatisfaction. Bp. Hall.
• RECOMPENSE
  recompensare, fr.L. pref. re- re- + compensare to compensate. See 1. To render an equivalent to, for service, loss, etc.; to requite; to remunerate; to compensate. He can not recompense me better. Shak. 2. To return an equivalent for;