Restitution vs Destitution - What's the difference?
restitution | destitution |
(legal) A process of compensation for losses.
The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
* Spenser
* Sandys
A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
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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.
(obsolete) The action of deserting or abandoning.
Discharge from office; dismissal.
The condition of lacking something.
* 1906 , ‘Mark Twain’, in The Bible According to Mark Twain , 1996, p. 330:
An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.
* 2009 , Rahila Gupta, The Guardian , 4 Aug 2009:
As nouns the difference between restitution and destitution
is that restitution is (legal) a process of compensation for losses while destitution is (obsolete) the action of deserting or abandoning.restitution
English
Noun
(wikipedia restitution)- A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.
- He restitution to the value makes.
- the restitution of an elastic body
Synonyms
* (act of compensating) recompense, indemnificationdestitution
English
Noun
(en noun)- He requires of his fellow man obedience to a very creditable code of morals, but he observes without shame or disapproval his God's utter destitution of morals.
- Destitution forces many asylum seekers to end up working for extremely low wages in catering, cleaning and construction, for example, without any protection against unscrupulous employers.