What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Indemnify vs Restitution - What's the difference?

indemnify | restitution |

As a verb indemnify

is to secure against loss or damage; to insure or indemnify can be (obsolete|rare) to hurt, to harm.

As a noun restitution is

(legal) a process of compensation for losses.

indemnify

English

Etymology 1

From (forming verbs'')''Oxford English Dictionary , 1st ed. "indemnify, v.1". Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1900.

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To secure against loss or damage; to insure.
  • * 1670 , , letter to Lord Arlington, in The Works of Sir William Temple , page 101:
    • The states must at last engage to the merchants here that they will indemnify them from all that shall fall out.
  • (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:
    • 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 * indemnifier
    Related terms
    * indemnity

    Etymology 2

    From , assimilated to (indemn) and

    Verb

  • (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?

    • References

    restitution

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia restitution)
  • (legal) A process of compensation for losses.
  • The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
  • * Spenser
    • A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.
  • * Sandys
    • He restitution to the value makes.
  • A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
    • the restitution of an elastic body
  • *
  • That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
  • (medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of compensating) recompense, indemnification

    Related terms

    * restitute