Recompense vs Indemnity - What's the difference?
recompense | indemnity |
An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
That which compensates for an injury.
To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
* Shakespeare
To give compensation for an injury.
To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
* Bible, Rom. xii. 17
(legal) An obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.
Repayment.
(legal) The right of an injured party to shift the loss onto the party responsible for the loss.
A principle of insurance which provides that when a loss occurs, the insured should be restored to the approximate financial condition occupied before the loss occurred, no better, no worse.
As nouns the difference between recompense and indemnity
is that recompense is an equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital while indemnity is (legal) an obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.As a verb recompense
is to reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.recompense
English
Noun
(en noun)- He offered money as recompense''' for the damage, but what the injured party wanted as '''recompense was an apology.
Synonyms
* * (l) * restitutionVerb
(recompens)- She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst
- He cannot recompense me better.
- The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
- Recompense to no man evil for evil.