| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repayment; rectification |
Synonyms: |
advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread, consideration, counterclaim, coverage, damages, defrayal, deserts, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, meet, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, quittance, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, recoupment, redress, reimbursement, remittal, remittance, remuneration, reparation, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, take-home, wage |
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damage, deprivation, fine, forfeiture, loss, penalty |
| Main Entry: | forgiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon; end of blame |
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absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, condonation, dispensation, exculpation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, lenience, lenity, mercy, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quarter, quittance, remission, remittal, reprieve, respite, vindication |
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accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence |
| Main Entry: | indemnification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation |
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advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread, consideration, counterclaim, coverage, damages, defrayal, deserts, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnity, meet, offset, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, quittance, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, recoupment, redress, reimbursement, remittal, remittance, remuneration, reparation, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, setoff, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, take-home, wage |
| Main Entry: | quittance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation |
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advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread, consideration, counterclaim, coverage, damages, defrayal, deserts, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, meet, offset, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, recoupment, redress, reimbursement, remittal, remittance, remuneration, reparation, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, setoff, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, take-home, wage |
| Main Entry: | setoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compensation |
Synonyms: |
advantage, allowance, amends, atonement, benefit, bonus, bread, consideration, counterclaim, coverage, damages, defrayal, deserts, earnings, fee*, gain, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, meet, offset, pay, payment, payoff, premium, profit, quittance, reciprocity, reckoning, recompense, recoupment, redress, reimbursement, remittal, remittance, remuneration, reparation, repayment, reprisal, requital, restitution, reward, salary, salt, satisfaction, scale, settlement, shake, stipend, take*, take-home, wage |
| Main Entry: | compensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
all straight, compensating, compensatory, countervailing, equivalent, in the opposite scale, moratory, never indebted, out of debt, owing nothing, paid, paying, unowed
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| Concept: | Compensation. |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
compensation, equation; commutation; indemnification; compromise neutralization, nullification; counteraction; reaction; measure for measure; retaliation, equalization [more]; robbing Peter to pay Paul., set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, equivalent, quid pro quo; bribe, hush money; amends (atonement); counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand.
-verbs
make compensation; compensate, compense; indemnify; counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance, overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up for, make leeway; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize; make good; redeem (atone).
-adjectives
compensating, compensatory; countervailing; in the opposite scale; equivalent (equal).
-adverbs
in return, in consideration; but, however, yet, still, notwithstanding; nevertheless, nathless, none the less; although, though; albeit, howbeit; mauger; at all events, at any rate; be that as it may, for all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time, quoad minus, quand meme, however that may be; after all is said and done; taking one thing with another (average).
-phrases
" light is mingled with the gloom " [Whittier]; every dark cloud has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter [Vergil]; saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas [Ovid].
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| Concept: | Forgiveness. |
| Category: | 2. Retrospective sympathetic affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve., conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation (pacification); propitiation., excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation (acquittal)., longanimity, placability; amantium irae; locus paenitentiae; forbearance.
-verbs
forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury., excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront., let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit., beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel (pacify); let the wound heal.
-adjectives
forgiving, placable, conclliatory,., forgiven; unresented, unavenged, unrevenged.
-adverbs
cry you mercy.
-phrases
veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Horace]; more in sorrow than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner; "the offender never pardons" [Herbert].
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