Synonyms for indemnity

Grammar : Noun

Spell : in-dem-ni-tee

Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈdɛm nɪ ti

Définition of indemnity

Origin : mid-15c., from Middle French indemnité (14c.), from Late Latin indemnitatem (nominative indemnitas) "security for damage," from Latin indemnis "unhurt, undamaged," from in- "not, opposite of, without" (see in- (1)) + damnum "damage" (see damn).

noun reimbursement

Example sentences :

The right of indemnity does not, however, constitute the principal point.
Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel

Once in their clutches, and there would be no pardon and no indemnity.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

Indemnity, swift and condign, does what mortal hand can do to heal the hurt.
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 » by Various

But Monroe could not obtain any concession of principle or promise of indemnity.
Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson

Invernahyle was afterwards pardoned under the Act of Indemnity.
Extract from : « Waverley » by Sir Walter Scott

The process of cleaning-up after the War involves an Indemnity Bill.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 12, 1920 » by Various

But, after all, the cancelation of the German indemnity is something.
Extract from : « Peking Dust » by Ellen N. La Motte

Of all the countries that received an indemnity, America was the only one that tried to forget.
Extract from : « Peking Dust » by Ellen N. La Motte

Pewee was now sure that the boat had been taken as indemnity for the chicken and the eggs.
Extract from : « The Hoosier School-boy » by Edward Eggleston

And that he was liberate upon the terms of the indemnity, &c.
Extract from : « Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) » by John Howie

Antonyms for indemnity

penalty

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