Reparation vs Acquittal - What's the difference?
reparation | acquittal |
(usually in plural) A payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s).
* Dryden
The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
(legal) A legal decision that someone is not guilty with which they have been charged, or the formal dismissal of a charge by some other legal process.
Payment of a debt or other obligation; reparations, amends.
(rare) Avoidance of danger; deliverance.
As nouns the difference between reparation and acquittal
is that reparation is (usually in plural) a payment of time, effort or money to undo past transgression(s) while acquittal is .reparation
English
Noun
(en noun)- I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
- the reparation of a bridge or of a highway