Indemnify vs Remedy - What's the difference?
indemnify | remedy |
To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
* 1670 , , letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple ,
(senseid)(chiefly, legal) To compensate or reimburse someone for some expense or injury
* 1906 , Civil Code of the State of California [http://books.google.com/books?id=Vds3AAAAIAAJ], page 405:
(obsolete, rare) to hurt, to harm
*1583 , Thomas Stocker's translation of A tragicall historie of the troubles and ciuile warres of the lowe Countries , i. 63a
*:He... did not belieue]] that his [[Majesty, Maiestie by this occasion coulde any way be endemnified .
*1593 , Thomas Lodge, Life & Death of William Long Beard , E ij
*:What harme the Rhodians haue]] [[done, doone thee, that thou so much indemnifiest them?
Something that corrects or counteracts.
(legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To provide or serve as a remedy for.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
As verbs the difference between indemnify and remedy
is that indemnify is to secure against loss or damage; to insure or indemnify can be (obsolete|rare) to hurt, to harm while remedy is to provide or serve as a remedy for.As a noun remedy is
something that corrects or counteracts.indemnify
English
Etymology 1
From (forming verbs'')''Oxford English Dictionary , 1st ed. "indemnify, v.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1900.Verb
(en-verb)page 101:
- The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
- The lender of a thing for use must indemnify the borrower for damage caused by defects or vices in it, which he knew at the time of lending, and concealed from the borrower.
Derived terms
* indemnifiable * indemnification * indemnifierEtymology 2
From , assimilated to (indemn) andVerb
References
remedy
English
(wikipedia remedy)Noun
(remedies)- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
Derived terms
* remedilessVerb
- Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
