Reparation
/ˌɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s). countable, plural-normally, uncountable
"I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able."
- 2 something done or paid in expiation of a wrong wordnet
- 3 The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired. archaic, countable, uncountable
"the reparation of a bridge or of a highway"
- 4 the act of putting something in working order again wordnet
- 5 (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors wordnet
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- 6 compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury wordnet
Example
More examples"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnis.